Government planners rejected plans for light-rail and have proposed a downtown transit mall with bus only lanes.
"CARS would be squeezed out of the city under the State Government's plan to create more bus lanes, reduce parking and potentially close five blocks of George Street to private traffic.
Buried in the detail of the Urban Transport Statement, released this week, are radical plans to manage growing bus congestion in Sydney by increasing their share of the city's main streets."
Critics of the plan say the proposal is not an adequate solution for the city's traffic woes.
"Kevin Warrell, the chief executive of Metro Transport, which runs Sydney's light rail system and has the first option for the next light rail line, said the plan was 'more of the same'.
'Taking the road space to turn Sydney into a bus terminal doesn't exactly seem the best way to plan Sydney's transport to me,' he said."
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