By: Dr. Peter Sinclair

Dr. Peter Sinclair — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:15:24 +0000

Too often forgotten, roads in pocket communities are in urgent need of attention. Moves to fix and rebuilt Rickard Road, Empire Bay, are welcome.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 02 May 2022 09:54:17 +0000

Can’t wait for Lucy’s announcement. I’m pretty sure that it will be the first one in 10 years about upgrading Avoca Drive. There is a another article in the CC News that should be linked to this to this one, “liberals-criticise-labors-30m-pledge-for-avoca-dr-upgrade, https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2022/04/liberals-criticise-labors-30m-pledge-for-avoca-dr-upgrade/
My comments on that article are below:
Lucy Wicks is right – “Residents in Kincumber” do deserve better, and Adam Crouch (NSW Parliamentary secretary for the Central Coast) should have done his research and actual sourced some “local knowledge” before he commented. As a life-long resident of the Kincumber area, I thought I had better share some local knowledge – The stretch of Avoca Drive from Saratoga-Greenpoint Roundabout to Frost Reserve Kincumber is dis-affectionately known by “Locals” as “Crouch’s Crawl” or “Wicks’ Waiting Room” in honour of our Liberal State & Federal MPs, Adam Crouch and Lucy Wicks. We think about their inaction and their silence on fixing this road in the nearly 2 hours a day that it takes to commute along this 5 km stretch of road in peak hour, especially when we are paying above $2 a litre for fuel. I was completely amazed & disgusted with Adam Crouch’s comments. Amazed in that, this is the most we have heard from him about Avoca Dr in 10 years in the NSW Government. Based on the Avoca Drive oral history or “Local Knowledge” (as referred to by Adam Crouch) the land was resumed to widen Avoca Drive, by the RTA under NSW Labor Governments in the 1980’s/1990’s, work was completed on the Saratoga/Greenpoint section around the late 90’s/early 2000’s. Around 2008/2009, the residents of Greenpoint, Kincumber, Saratoga, Bensville, Empire, McMasters Beach, Avoca were asked, by the RTA, to vote on the next section of Avoca Drive to be upgraded – the Greenpoint-Erina end won the vote, the NSW State Labor work commenced work which was completed in 2011/2012 around the time that the NSW Liberal Government was elected. Since that time, it’s 11 years since 2011, there has been absolutely no action by the NSW Liberal Government to upgrade Avoca Drive, nor has the Federal Liberal Government (electeCan d in 2013) taken any interest in this stretch of road. Now you can see why this stretch of Avoca Drive is dis-affectionately known by “Locals” as “Crouch’s Crawl” or “Wicks’ Waiting Room” in honour of our Liberal State & Federal MPs, Adam Crouch and Lucy Wicks. Our former Liberal members, Chris Hartcher – State member & Jim Lloyd were vocal representatives on the need to upgrade this road, unfortunately Adam Crouch & Lucy Wicks (even after 10 years in their respective State and Federal Governments) have done and said nothing to improve this road. What’s even more disappointing is that Adam Crouch is being paid extra to be the “Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast”. What’s worse is Adam’s decision to merge Gosford and Wyong Council into Central Coast Council, ensuring that the problems of Avoca Drive was totally removed as a priority for the Central Coast. Adam, better a Labor announcement then following on from you and having no announcements, except to criticise Labor for your total lack of action on fixing Avoca Drive. However, I will give Adam credit for fixing the southern approach (Empire Bay Drive) to ”Crouch’s Crawl” at “Lavender Bends”. Work started just before the 2019 NSW State election, and this work dragged on for about 2 years – must have been paying the contractors by the hour. Bit more local knowledge for you, we call that part of Empire Bay Drive “Lavender Bends” because if you breathe too deeply, you’ll get a wif of the Sewer Treatment Works which smells just like a politician’s promise. Looking forward to Lucy Wicks announcing that she will finish the construction of Avoca Drive if she gets elected again.
https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2022/04/liberals-criticise-labors-30m-pledge-for-avoca-dr-upgrade/

By: Jude

Jude — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:36:59 +0000

Words from the mouth of Ms Wicks “we always deliver what we say we will”. Who are you kidding Ms Wicks? Your government has one of the worst track records of “All Say and No Do”. Everything under the sun promised with an upcoming election – and then afterwards, virtually nothing delivered. Perhaps Ms Wicks should choose her words more carefully next time she wants to do a bit of bragging.

By: Ruth Ross

Ruth Ross — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:31:56 +0000

The plans for the widening of Avoca Drive, were completed 20years ago. The RTA back then, purchased the road frontage of Frost Reserve from Council, and the community made sure that the purchase price was paid to Kincumber funding A/c, rather than general revenue.

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