WITH your permission, I will share with readers a letter I sent to the general manager of Tamworth Regional Council ... as follows:
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Would it be possible for you and your elected “crew” be able to extract yourself from the “ivory tower of complacency” and go visit this particular route that is supposedly a “road” where I abide?
This road (Weagbonga Rd, Limbri) is an utter disgrace; the maintenance is practically zero (this year your crew widened a section approximately 4km from Limbri village – and graded approximately 15km to no avail).
The road “manager” and his band of merry men are supposed to ensure the vehicles that travel this road do so in safety.
This is not the case.
The corrugation, the potholes, the grid approaches are something to behold – six to eight inches of surface gravel removed from the concrete that supports the grid – really an asset for the vehicle’s suspension mechanism to absorb – get my drift?
The owner of Glencoe Park, an elderly gentleman, has used his machinery to fill in the ruts that abutt the concrete bridge over Swamp Oak Creek, the boundary grids and his property.
This, to me, is an act of civic pride, to ensure that there is some relief in giving to the “track” users.
It is ludicrous and lunacy that the TRC cannot, and will not, focus on the maintenance of this appalling excuse for a road, to acknowledge that there could be a fatality – a bus load of school children, a family in a vehicle, etcetera.
So, Mr General Manager, I suggest you treat this summary very seriously.
Don’t make excuses about “lack of funds”, which is the norm for most bureaucracies that have the funds, but it’s normally convenient to allocate funds to urban roads and infrastructure – an example is the Oxley Highway/Dampier St roundabout.
Would you be able to enlighten me, and the community of Tamworth, as to how and why the construction of this infrastructure’s costing was $3 million – it’s an astronomical amount of money – and to my way of estimation (though not qualified), it appears there should be a surplus of funds.
Answers. Please explain!
In conclusion, I will await your explanations of my questions with bated breath and I assume that most or all of the users will be expecting a positive response from your organisation.
GD Daly
Limbri