The federal government’s mass immigration program is the curse that keeps on lowering Sydney living standards.
Yesterday, The SMH reported that Sydney’s traffic congestion continues to worsen, killing productivity:
The vehicle fleets of almost half of Sydney businesses are spending and hour longer in traffic each day than a year ago, a survey by the NRMA has found.
And a whopping 93 per cent of businesses believe Sydney’s congestion has worsened in the last year, according to the motoring group’s survey of 1100 businesses which run fleets of vehicles. Some 67 per cent of those polled use more fuel.
The latest snapshot underscores the growing pressures on Sydney’s roads and public transport from a surge in population and ensuing construction boom.
NRMA president Kyle Loades described congestion as a “jobs and growth killer” and said the survey supported the need for investments in motorways and public transport…
Sydney’s schools are also becoming crush-loaded by the population deluge, with the State Government increasingly having to resort to housing students in demountable classrooms. From The SMH:
With one in 10 NSW public school classrooms a demountable, documents obtained under freedom of information laws have revealed more than a third of the so-called temporary structures have been in place for more than a decade.
Despite their unpopularity with parents and the opposition, Education Minister Rob Stokes has confirmed they are an integral part of the government’s plan to meet the unprecedented student boom now facing the state’s schools…
The number of temporary classrooms, which critics argue take up playground space and swelter in the summer, has risen 17 per cent in less than two years…
Under department policy they are supposed to be used for a maximum of seven years.
But 1462 – just under a third – of the structures have been in place for a decade or more…
It’s not just older schools that are bursting at the seams – Dalmeny Public in Prestons opened in 2003, but now has 18 demountables for a student population double what the school was built for.
“I just don’t think they estimated the growth of the area,” said Rebecca Singh, a parent at the school. She said about a quarter of the school’s playground had been given over to demountables…
The NSW school system is undergoing an unprecedented student boom, with 7200 additional classrooms needed in the next 15 years.
A report on classroom capacity by the Auditor-General last week commended the department’s recent plan to accommodate the booming student population, but pointed out the government has not committed to fully fund it.
More time stuck in traffic. Less affordable (and smaller) homes. Schools bursting at the seams. This is what “prosperity” looks like to immigration extremists like Peter Martin.
Of course, anyone with half a brain knows what is driving Sydney’s falling livability: the federal government’s mass immigration program.
It is this mass immigration program that drove the 821,000 (20%) increase in Sydney’s population in the 12 years to 2016:
And it is Australia’s mass immigration program that is primarily responsible for the 87,000 people per year projected increase in Sydney’s population to 6.4 million over the next 20-years – effectively adding another Perth to the city’s population:
You can see from the State Government’s own projections above that Sydney’s population would grow by 1.53 million fewer people over the next 20-years with zero net overseas migration. That’s the equivalent of nearly four Canberras that would not need to be built across the city, along with at least a million new cars not choking-up Sydney’s roads.
Clearly, the best way to solve Sydney’s housing and infrastructure woes is for the State Government to tap its federal counterpart on the shoulder and demand they slash Australia’s immigration program. Because under current mass immigration settings, incumbent residents of Sydney are facing big cuts to their living standards along with expensive infrastructure bills.
