Wales calls for action on corner

Independent candidate for Gosford Ms Debra Wales has "lashed out" at Gosford Council for its "inaction" in upgrading the intersection of Ocean Beach Rd and Lone Pine Ave after another major car crash on the morning of Wednesday, February 21.

"We have been asking Gosford Council to apply for Federal Black Spot funding for the past year since their ridiculous decision to allocate $600,000 for traffic lights further north on Ocean Beach Rd," Ms Wales said.

"But they choose to ignore the highest accident-prone intersection where we have already had a pedestrian killed on the crossing.

"Will it take a dozen deaths before Gosford Council acts?

"The people on the Peninsula know exactly what this dreadful intersection is like but Gosford Council choose to do nothing.

"While we called for action, the Council and the Federal Government then spent another $100,000 on its eighth raised pedestrian crossing on the main street at Ettalong Beach against the advice of local residents who wanted it where the speeding problems actually are."

Ms Wales said she was calling for the Council Traffic Committee to be scrapped and to put the decision making into the hands of expert engineers.

"The experts will base their decisions on accident prone areas not political agenda," Ms Wales said.

"They ignore local residents, they ignore community representatives and they ignore the accident figures staring them in the face.

"It's time to go before another death occurs because of their ignorance."

Press release, 21 Feb 2007 Debra Wales, Independent candidate for Gosford