Orange with a population of 60,000 people, Bathurst with 50,000 and Blayney with 10,000 but all dwarfed by a super city in the middle at Vittoria with 110,000 residents.
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That's how state government planners in 1975 saw how the Central West would look today.
The Bathurst/Orange Growth Area plan was created in the 1970s as part of a major decentralisation plan, along with the Albury/Wodonga region, to settle people away from Sydney.
An engineer, who did not want to be named, has found the old plans and they provide interesting reading now about a multi-million dollar project that never happened.
Originally it was proposed the whole region would be home to 300,000 people but that was later reduced to 240,000. Today the population is about 100,000.
The government planners looked at making major changes to Orange to allow for the expected population boom.
It was proposed to create a road network in Orange similar to the one operating in Canberra.
A key part of the plan was to reduce the importance, and the flow of traffic along Summer Street as they planned to change the shape of the CBD from linear to square.
That included stopping the railway line north of Orange station and instead provide a route bypassing the CBD from near Towac Park racecourse around west Orange and rejoin the line to Dubbo north of Orange.
An eastern CBD bypass using William Street would make the land along the closed railway line become an integral part of the CBD.
Bathurst Road would have linked to Moulder Street through the old Thomson's Garden Centre plot, now vacant, and establish a southern CBD bypass with improved vehicle access to the bus and train station.
A northern CBD bypass would have used Prince Street, with access to the TAFE complex and the old Orange Base Hospital.
The plans also included converting Phillip Street into a distributor road with the possibility of designating the road as the official Mitchell Highway route.
A report into the project said the region was selected to be the first growth centre in NSW because of its proximity to Sydney, a central location, excellent road and rail links, plenty of natural resources for construction work, access to natural gas and electricity and adequate water resources.
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