TOO right, Jennifer Tierney (This Is The First Highway Priority, letter, September 19).
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Blue Mountains folk all know it's utter rot to think of widening the Great Western Highway by two lanes when it will still have the same traffic lights and speed zones and local roads feeding onto it.
Two more lanes governed by the same lights, speed zones and local roads will just add more traffic, which means more congestion, not a shorter journey.
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It's all just politicians' smoke and mirrors.
And it's the Bathurst folk who are being conned.
Leave the poor antiquated Great Western Highway alone. It's been on its last legs for ages now, so put it out to pasture, let it live out its days in peace among the quiet little villages on its flanks.
Build a new 100 kilometres per hour road somewhere else or put the freight on the trains like we used to do.
Widening the Great Western Highway is like putting lipstick on a pig. Underneath that lipstick, it's still just a pig.