Colourful Decals
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Dear editor,
Recently I have noticed vehicles from the Cowra Neighbourhood Centre Community Transport sporting colourful decals and then today I noticed that they were also sporting personalised number plates such as 01:CCT.
Both these initiatives cost taxpayers money and when the vehicles are sold/traded in, reduce the resale/trade-in price.
I make these comments as a former member and Chairman of the Neighbourhood Centre Board of Management and a volunteer Community Transport driver for 12 years
Locals would also have noticed the cycle lanes and associated signs that have appeared on streets within the town precincts.
What they would not have noticed are any bikes!
While the very considerable cost may well have been shared between Road and Maritime Services (RMS) and Council, it still remains a cost to us as ratepayers and taxpayers.
Furthermore, I believe there is a difference of opinion between the Council and the Police about the road markings and the legal implications for motorists.
The absence of any advice to the community regarding the implication of the cycle paths on both the cyclist and the motorist leaves everyone in the dark.
Then today I noticed a metal 50 KPH speed sign on the median strip in the middle of Kendall Street, duplicating signs already in place. Why?
If there is so much spare money, let’s reduce the amount that the transport disadvantaged have to pay to use Cowra Community Transport to visit specialists in Orange and Bathurst, reduce our rates or at least impose smaller rate increases, undertake the refurbishment of Squire Park, and many other worthwhile projects.
I would like to see these decisions justified to the ratepayers and taxpayers of Cowra.
Tiit Tonuri
Savages Lane
Cowra
Highway or goat track?
Dear editor,
Every day I risk my life.
Every day, I dice with death and wonder is today the day I don’t make it home.
I’m not a soldier. I don’t have a dangerous job. But what I do have is one of the most dangerous drives each day too and from my workplace.
I commute to Canberra each day from Boorowa on the treacherous Lachlan Valley Way and the notorious Barton Highway, now listed as one of our eight most feared roads in NSW.
These are roads that have long been shrouded in controversy and used by our political parties as a pawn in seeking re-election, but with every election the death toll on these roads grow whilst very little is done in response to the ongoing carnage.
The 2016 election is no different. How many more must die or be severely injured before our politicians do something serious about these death traps?
Sure, our Governing bodies have often talked about upgrading the road and not surprisingly most of the talk is right before a state or federal election.
Just this week, the Federal Government has committed $50 million dollars towards the duplication of the Barton Highway, however this is just a drop in the ocean as to what is really needed on this crucial piece of infrastructure. This commitment is simply an election token, a sweetener to sway those voters influenced by this major election issue.
It’s not enough, and the question remains why can’t the Federal Government make a long term commitment and allocate the hundreds of millions of dollars over a multi-year plan to duplicate this road.
The same can be said of the NSW State Government when it comes to the Lachlan Valley.
Phil Coggins, Boorowa