I don't think there is one road within the area that doesn't have at least a dozen potholes. Potholes are badly patched and within days what was thrown in the hole has disappeared.

There is one section of The Wool Road between Larmer Avenue, Sanctuary Point and Naval College Road that has had work done at least three times in the last two years and it still has potholes and uneven surfaces. It is patched and as soon as it rains it is full of holes again. Nothing gets done properly.

The weeds are out of control on council controlled land, fireweed is taking over. I have never seen a council worker anywhere doing weed control.

Shoalhaven is the third coastal council area I have lived in over the last 10 years and out of the three council areas Shoalhaven is by far the worst: the worst roads, no weed control policy that I can see, no feral animal control policy, no domestic cat control policy.

Why was our hardworking Gilmore MP Fiona Phillips not invited to the sod turning on the new Nowra bridge works?

I'm not the only one whom personally takes a very dim view on that behaviour.

A sad testimony to the her state parliamentary colleagues Gareth Ward, Shelley Hancock and NSW Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole, who will take all the credit.

If you want respect, give others the same respect you'd like to receive yourself.

Transport for NSW has not listened to the Currarong community on our concerns about our road.

For many years at community meetings and through the Currarong Community Association we have first and foremost been trying to get our road fixed.

We have tried to get the current 80km speed zone extended west by around 500m to reduce speed in one of the most dangerous areas, and extend the 50km zone west of the Pt Perpendicular turn-off.

We were repeatedly told that the speed limits wouldn't be changed.

Now, without any consultation, Transport for NSW is changing the entire 11km from 100km/h to 80km/h.

This will not fix the problem with our road and will only make it marginally safer at best. It will lead to frustration with many drivers who have to commute daily on the road. It is, after all, the only way in and out of Currarong and the Beecroft Peninsula.

The only safe and enduring solution is to undertake all the necessary road works that are needed.

The community is concerned that when the speed limits are reduced fixing our road will now be overlooked by governments.

Transport for NSW needs to come out to Currarong and talk to us and not claim they have listened when clearly they have not.

With the official work starting on the new Nowra Bridge you would have thought it would have been a who's who of past and present for the chrome shovelling of the soil, but no it was a selective group. Chauffeur driven ministers, media, bridge workers, PAs. With a speech from the Member for Kiama Gareth Ward blowing his own trumpet and putting the slipper into Shoalhaven City Council. It would have been better if the Kiama MP said sorry to the local homeless, to the people on the waiting list for elective surgery at Shoalhaven Hospital, long before COVID-19 hit and the terrible rail service between Kiama and Bomaderry. As the Member said on the day, "It's not all about the Princess Highway"....WOW