RE: Know The Drill On Great Western Highway (April 17).
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Mr Toole tells us that Mount Victoria and Blackheath are areas where we see traffic building up after a long weekend and school holidays. He left out Medlow Bath.
Mr Toole tells us that the $2.5 billion for the highway project covers short to medium term projects to improve the Blackheath-Mount Victoria section. He left out Medlow Bath.
Mr Toole tells us that Blackheath's tunnel is locked in and now - just announced - there will be a tunnel under Mount Victoria too. He left out Medlow Bath.
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His plan is to tunnel under two of the three villages that become car parks on Sunday afternoons and public holidays, but leave the third one tunnel-less.
Ahh, his solution for that is to widen the highway through Medlow Bath for about one kilometre. It will be a 60kph speed zone and have at least two sets of traffic lights within that one kilometre.
It will go back to two lanes on either side of that one kilometre stretch. We wish he'd leave Medlow Bath out of that nonsensical plan.
The journey to Sydney from the Central West will be just as long, tiresome and irritating as ever.
And quaint, historical Medlow Bath will be a macadam strip with cars full of frustrated holidaymakers, angry truckers and miserable locals stuck in their homes.
One thing Medlow will no longer be full of, though, is tourists. For this, we can all thank Mr Toole and Transport for NSW.