GOOD to see that the Central West is getting some attention, judging by Mr Toole's announcement of the Online Industry Information Session on September 28 regarding the upgrading of the Great Western Highway from Kelso to Raglan.
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This stretch of road is about 4.4 kilometres long and $30 million has been allocated to it.
You'll have a nice smooth ride for those four kilometres or so.
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With some luck and money from Heaven, you might also one day get a smooth ride all the way to Lithgow.
And that's where it all goes pear-shaped, folks.
Once complete, those spiffy new lanes will still only tie-in to the half-done, out-of-money, mess of a project that is the Great Western Highway upgrade through the Blue Mountains.
Yep, that's the mess with the 27 traffic lights, the pedestrian crossings, the school zones and the varying speed limits that go up and down as often as a toilet seat in a unisex public lavatory.
Enjoy the Kelso to Raglan bit - after that, it gets ugly.
And it will stay ugly, until Mr Toole and Mr Lunn wake up that the Great Western Highway upgrade through the Blue Mountains will not make the Bathurst to Sydney journey any faster, easier or safer.
They owe it to us to find a better way.
