AFTER almost three years of public campaigning, Kent and Dianne McNab can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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On Wednesday night, in response to an inquiry from councillor Alex Christian, Bathurst Regional Council's director of Engineering Services revealed that a design for the Mitre, Suttor and Lambert street intersection had been received.
Darren Sturgiss said that the final plans were received from Geolyse on Tuesday, allowing him to put the tender documentation together.
"The tender documentation is being finalised - I am doing that personally - and I'm intending to have the tender released Saturday week (May 11)," he said.
In the room when the update was given were Mr and Mrs McNab, who were ecstatic to hear the news.
"That was the first we heard of it," Mr McNab told the Western Advocate.
"We were so excited when we got home. We couldn't sleep.
"And we can give the people of Bathurst some positive news now, because the people ask us all the time."
The couple is looking forward to the sod turning and Mr McNab said he was confident it would happen before the end of 2019.
It has been a very long road for the McNabs to get to this point.
They have held fears about the chaotic intersection for decades and started publicly campaigning after a car ran into the fence of The Assumption School on November 25, 2016.
They have been responsible for a petition that garnered more than 4000 signatures, made around 40 speeches to council, and wrote letters to every level of government for help.
Mr McNab can now definitively say their campaign was worth the effort.
"We're just over the moon," he said.
"All the hard work knocking on people's doors day and night, even when Dianne was sick she would drop me off and pick me up, the people of Bathurst they were wonderful as far as we're concerned.
"Now we can relax a bit."
