RE: This Should Be The First Highway Priority, letter, Jennifer Tierney, September 19.
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Accidents occur on the spots of the Great Western Highway that Transport for NSW won't bother to fix.
Why won't they fix them? Is it that there's no percentage in fixing the unsafe parts of the Great Western Highway?
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It's much more vote-catching to push for building a wider road that will supposedly get you all to and from Sydney in record time!
And yet we all know that adding two lanes to the existing Great Western Highway won't get anyone to and from the Central West/Sydney any faster.
It won't get any freight to and from the Central West/Sydney any faster. It can't.
There are more than 25 traffic lights, 16 different speed zones, six school zones, pedestrian crossings, villages on the road's edge - and traffic jams.
All of that guarantees that a driver won't save any time once he gets to the Bluies.
We residents would love to be able to get down to Sydney and the suburbs quickly too - but we know only too well it can't happen by just adding a few lanes.
Transport for NSW, find another route that doesn't destroy villages and the lives of the people in them. And doesn't turn us into road-kill too, thanks.
Get the bulk of the freight onto rail. Give Bathurst that third Bullet train.
John Hollis, get into Lunn's and Toole's ears a bit more. It's time they told the truth to Bathurst about this.
