Crown Rd pipe dream

I am writing to provide a progress report on matters raised with the usual great fanfare from Gosford Council.

Media releases, newspaper articles, Gosford City Roads and Buildings Revamp, and of course the specific mention of Crown Rd, Umina, being one of councils priorities.

These pronouncements were made in July, so here we are in November dreaming of the day we may see even survey work done, rather than the continual visits from our salt and pepper road gangs.

No, the latest update on the Crown Rd rehabilitation is that, like most things from Gosford Council, they are either pipe dreams or funding has been spent elsewhere.

Usual excuses will be that other higher priorities arose, or that Council hasn't lost any money but it did invest its latest funding in a now defunct American scheme to see if it could speed up the process.

I will keep you posted each quarter on the rehabilitation process to see if perhaps it is overtaken by sea level rise in 2055.'

Come on Council don't leave it until June 30, 2013, so that you have some contingency funds left in the basket, get the work done with the funding you have gained.

Email, 5 Nov 2012

Dennis Tonnes, Umina