After waiting several years for South St at Killarney Vale to be repaired, I saw two Council people with a bucket of gravel and a shovel filling in the potholes on Saturday, July 19.
This street needs to be ripped up and a new surface installed, not more potholes filled in.
I thought with the new Council there might have been a chance of improving the Central Coast in the way we had expected.
If filling in potholes is councillors’ answer to our disgusting roads they should go.
Council has a 10-year plan and if this type of repair is what they propose, they will soon be so far behind there will be no hope.
Repair the roads properly and they might last 10 years; do what you are doing and they might last 10 months.
I am disappointed with the Council and can only hope things will change for the better and not continue the way they are.
Email, Jul 19
Phil Morrison, Bateau Bay
If potholes are the biggest issue in our Council area, we’re doing ok.
I mean, they’re not. We have:
– A Deputy Mayor who challenges the rules
– A ruling coalition of councillors that won’t even pretend to listen to the other half
– Some of the worst erosion problems on the east coast
– An uncertain future for one of the Coast’s most historic buildings
The potholes are a problem, too, but there’s much worse ones we can worry about 😇
I wonder if our roads would be in better nick if there was less of them to be maintained…
Across the Netherlands, almost all non-motorway roads are only one lane in each direction, and most residential roads are brick instead of asphalt. Granted, bricks have a high upfront cost, but how much would our council save if we could implement such a system here? The road maintenance budget could decrease by half or more, I’d wager
(And yes, they used to have a lot of two- and three-lane roads. These were retroactive changes applied in the 70s and 80s, with the extra space being given to trees, pedestrians, or cyclists)