The article concerning "planning" for reducing Bathurst road congestion indicates the lack of the most basic urban planning by the council.

Allowing large housing estates to erupt on the fringes of the city shows a complete absence of forward thinking and knowledge of infrastructure requirements associated with these developments.

Surely the Bathurst city engineers were employed to plan and advise on such developments.

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They obviously have not indicated strongly enough to council the importance of urban planning with these estates.

Transport arteries are surely a critical aspect of allowing such estates.

Endeavouring to correct these mistakes at a later stage is an impossible ask.

Plan for one-way streets in the centre of the city now and incorporate this into an overall plan for traffic movement in and around the city.

An understanding of basic urban geography is what is required, not the unfettered development of housing estates on the city fringes where individual access to housing and business is permitted from main traffic arteries, with even more traffic lights.

There should be no direct access to housing and business from a major traffic artery, rather from commuter road access.

This is only a cheap and nasty future problem.