Kerbs and gutters are futile

With the council elections approaching rapidly, I can't wait to hear all the good things that the various parties and candidates are going to promise us.

Unfortunately, it will be all promises, promises with no hope of 'realising' any of the promises.

You have to ask yourself why they continue to do this?

They must know that the Gosford Council is unsustainable.

In the case of Craig Munnings bemoaning the lack of representation for Peninsula residents: "just one road on the Peninsula has been sealed, kerbed and guttered - that is Wellington St, Umina".

Munnings, who has lived here all his life, and "taken the opportunity to become involved politically and at various community forums" must know that there is a long standing moratorium on kerb and gutter construction on the Peninsula because it is unaffordable, unsustainable and a futile exercise on such a flat sand plain.

There is certainly much that could be done to improve the condition of the roads here, but putting in drains that will in all likelihood be underwater in times of flood (in fact some are underwater at king tides at present) is exactly what you would expect from Gosford Council.

Fact is that council has just completed the kerb and guttering of the street that is first to be flooded during high tide and heavy rains and it runs along a creek.

Munnings and Gosford council are a perfect fit.

Bryan Ellis, Umina