The Six Cities Commissioner Robyn Parker has committed the Commission to making it a priority to assess the transport needs of all future developments on the Coast.
Fifty years ago Gosford councillors were complaining and battling for an upgrade and improvements to the transport system on the Coast.
Every time this promise is made it has never been honoured; will this be an exception?
Time and again development applications that come before Council are refused because the RTA states the roads are inadequate.
Developments which are before Council now have inadequate transport options.
Developments being planned have totally inadequate provisions for infrastructure and transport.
It is acknowledged that future housing needs to be built in areas where there are good transport options, yet time and again these are not being met.
When are both state and federal politicians going to understand this and finally realise that we cannot continue without addressing this problem?
If the future is for another 30,000 houses to be built here on the Coast we have to have the roads and infrastructure to support this.
Even when the much-touted waterfront development is spouted and politicians and business people jump up and down with glee nothing is said about the elephant in the room; the little matter of a major highway going through it.
When a traffic study paid for by taxpayers recommended a traffic plan for The Avenue at Kariong it was ignored and chaos prevails.
The people on the Coast need better than this.
Email May 14
Geoff Mitchell, Kariong