Path around point is needed

Some sections of the old road around the point to Pearl Beach are potentially lethal.

While the danger is quite obvious to anyone who looks up, many of us still use the access because it is less dangerous than walking the torturous road over the mountain to Pearl Beach.

The fact is Pearl Beach needs a second access.

There will not always be a helicopter to fly people out.

I suggest council take some of those Federal dollars on offer and start building a one-way road from Umina around the point to Pearl Beach with a proper footpath between the road and water.

A road which can be used to evacuate Pearl Beach if needed during fire season or when the other road is closed by an accident.

I am interested in reading the report on the unstable rock above where council were working to repair the crushed sewer pipe.

I see no evidence of any work done to stabilise rock which is clearly on the move.

What was done to make that workplace safe?

I also notice there are already over 300 stone blocks placed below the batter collapse near the hairpin at the work site.

This is interesting when council told readers of the local paper there was nothing to worry about.

Is this rock retaining wall just a little over the top?

Will people still be able to use the safer of the two ways into Pearl Beach when council is finished?

Why is it Gosford Council has not tided up the whole access road between Umina and Pearl Beach? After all, it is well travelled.

My photo surveys show it is an important and well-used access.

It is more used than the rocky point below Terrigal Skillion which cost ratepayers a small fortune to make relatively safe.

That area will never be as important an access as the old Pearl Beach road which our council has allowed to fall into an unsafe ruin.

Email, 27 Jul 2010 Ed James, Umina