Letter | Go under or go around to keep village's heritage intact

As a society, we need to progress, grow and expand - but sometimes we also ought to pause and count the cost. Ask ourselves if there is another way.

The Central West needs better, faster and safer access to Sydney.

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There are several choices as to which route to develop and two of these would not cause destruction of villages and misery for the residents.

Shouldn't those choices be looked into thoroughly?

Does destroying the character of a village and the lifestyle of its residents matter much?

Does cutting down rows of towering trees which functioned as an "Avenue of Honour" to the men of Medlow Bath who served in World War One and World War Two matter much?

Does tearing down Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth's Explorers' Tree at Medlow Bath, a cherished symbol of our pioneering history, matter much?

And what will happen to the convict graves behind the Explorers' Tree?

Those wretched men died while building what is now the Great Western Highway. Their bodies were laid to rest behind the Explorers' Tree, with stones and rocks placed upon them, to mark where they lay.

It's a very special place, deserving of our respect.

Or will Transport for NSW dig 'em up and toss their bones into the Megalong Valley?

A bypass or a tunnel would spare the villages, the residents, the memorial to our veterans and the graves of the dead.

And a bypass or a tunnel would give the Central West infinitely better, faster and safer access to Sydney.

Tell Transport for NSW.