I am pleased to accept the polite apology from Bruce Hyland (“Listing the ’manifest shortcomings’”, p. 12) regarding his memory lapse about the fatal accident at the Rawson Road level crossing in 2017.
I would also like to take this opportunity to correct the record on a further, and very significant, matter.
Bruce Hyland claims …” there was never any commitment of the state government to Stages 2, 3 and 4 of the Bull’s Hill project” (“Listing the ’manifest shortcomings’”, p. 12).
I think in this case a picture speaks a thousand words, as the NSW Government actually erected a sign adjacent to the Rawson Rd level crossing, entitled ‘Rail level crossing replacement’… Completion date 2018’.
In October 2016 the NSW Government took down the sign, along with its 2011 commitment to build a safe alternate to the Rawson Rd level crossing.
There is no doubt in local residents’ minds that the NSW Government did promise to replace the deadly Rawson Rd level crossing.
Email, Feb 6
Stephanie Short, Woy Woy