Councillors should not stop essential services

The tragedy that has impacted on Peninsula residents with Gosford Council not organising funding to dredge the Ettalong Channel is a reminder of the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

Ever since Spike Milligan said the Woy Woy Peninsula was like an above-ground cemetery, the Peninsula has been treated like a second-class citizen

Works that should have been completed years ago, remain untouched while ratepayers' contributions have gone to improving other suburbs: The railway underpass, the Woy Woy public wharf, over 70 roads and streets without footpaths and kerbing and now the channel.

The Peninsula is no longer a Blacktown by the Sea but an inspired, thriving community of people wanting a better lifestyle and putting their backs into making it so.

Cancellation of ferry services because of a lack of dredging has hurt the Peninsula residents and businesses dramatically.

Councillors are appointed to look after our interests, not appointed to look for arguments because they don't like the NSW political scene.

Never again should councillors be allowed to vote to stop essential services from operating.

Email, 23 May 2018

Rod Fountain, Booker Bay