{"id":19278,"date":"2025-07-15T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19278"},"modified":"2025-07-15T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:08:22","slug":"western-harbour-tunnel-design-and-landscape-plan-was-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19278","title":{"rendered":"Western Harbour Tunnel &#8211; Design and landscape plan was approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Western Harbour Tunnel Place, Design and Landscape Plan (PDLP) \u2013 Part 1 has been approved by NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, that follows community and stakeholder feedback last year on key areas, including ventilation facilities, tunnel portals, landscape design and tunnel interiors and the intention was to weave local natural and cultural stories and influences into the final tunnel infrastructure design.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outlining a simple and uncluttered design for the three tunnel portals, this plan makes the tunnel interiors be acknowledge the culture and natural environment of the Cammeraygal and Wangal people, whose land the tunnel passes through, and Sydney Harbour. The interiors were developed in consultation with Aboriginal elders and community members and designed by Aboriginal artist Dennis Golding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the aim of reducing traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel by linking the Warringah Freeway with the Rozelle Interchange, the Western Harbour Tunnel is designed as a 6.5km tunnel and is the first new road crossing of Sydney Harbour in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Harbour Tunnel Place, Design and Landscape Plan (PDLP) \u2013 Part 1 has been approved by NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, that follows community and stakeholder feedback last year on key areas, including ventilation facilities, tunnel portals, landscape design and tunnel interiors and the intention was to weave local natural and cultural stories and influences into the final tunnel infrastructure design. 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