Our money used for Terrigal upgrades

Just a thought for all readers on the Peninsula - our land and water rates collected by our lovely council come to a sum of $10 million per financial year.

What, if any, is spent on our area?

Instead of putting a sign up about environmental damage, perhaps council should do the right thing and clear the area of trees that have grown up in the last 40 years, thus giving a clear view over the beach.

What a lovely sight that would be.

Or have the council, as usual, forgotten about us and used our money for Terrigal upgrades and others?

If council's excuse is "we lost money on investments", just perhaps they should arrange to pay it back out of their own pockets seeing as it wasn't theirs to begin with but ours.

If we'd done the same thing, we would have been charged with embezzlement very fast!

In the last 40 odd years, council has allowed development to occur and yet they have not improved the road system to cater for all the extra traffic created by their action.

So, what would improve the area's roads?

A new road to be built along the railway line from Point Clare to the new Central Coast Highway thus bypassing West Gosford bottleneck.

A cycleway is being considered, so why not a road?

Next, another new road to connect the F3 as originally planned all those years ago.

Once again bypassing the bottlenecks of West Gosford and Bulls Hill.

The cost will be enormous, but the later they leave it the greater the cost will be.

Perhaps the Federal Labour Government will help them out?

Letter, 30 Jan 2010 Andy Palmer, Umina Beach