Your headline article in Coast Community News Issue 140 was pathetic in that a number of the facts don’t add up or make sense.
Yes there is a looming shortage of parking but yes Vicky Scott was a councillor when the Gosford Council sold Kibbleplex and lost 400 car spaces. Vicky Scott was also a councillor when the CBD sites were given the 30 per cent increase in development and often not given a similar increase in parking spots. Then you go on to mention the ATO six times. What are they guilty of, 13 car spaces short, do us a favour. And you raise the negative that the building workers on new sites will need parking to those that don’t arrive by train. You interviewed Scott MacDonald but failed to mention the new 800 space carpark as part of the hospital expansion, and in the free commuter car park opposite Gosford Station, parking is available most days up to 7am, not 6am.
Maybe you should take Vicky Scott’s guilty plea to being party to the creation of the looming shortage, add to it the Deb O’Neill’s penchant for saying lots about everything but doing nothing much, and join the Gosford Waterfront Alliance who are determined that we will never get an Arts Centre. If you all stay out of town, I am sure that it will more than make up for the 13 spaces the ATO should add, in your opinion (or Vicky’s opinion). Stop bagging development and progress and help Gosford get moving.
Email, Aug 29, 2016 Godfrey Franz, Gosford