Proposed highway change ridiculous
A move to change the Princes Highway speed limit from 100 to 80 kilometres per hour is ridiculous. Soon the limit will be 80km/h from Nowra to Milton, it takes longer now than it did in the 80s.
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John Solomon, Mollymook.
Outrageous to change speed limit
Shoalhaven City Council wanting to lower this speed limit is outrageous!
This is a main arterial highway and these councillors want to lower speed limits to create more frustration, congestion and road rage to road users. Since the inception of the roundabout at Island Point Road turnoff on the highway, from basically Wandandian to Tomerong it is 80kms - ridiculous!
We have a somewhat nearly better highway these days than when I was growing up and all they want to do is lower speed limits all the time. Since a lot of these speed limits have been implemented I have never had so many near misses and possible fatals, being no fault of my own, compared to the speed limit of 100km/h.
Councillors seem to use driveways as an excuse but how has it never affected anything or anyone before this? Most motor vehicle accidents are due to negligent drivers with no idea that shouldn't have licenses, not speed!
Matthew Monsuere, Sussex Inlet
This bypass is best, so everyone calm down and let's build it
The announcement that Transport for NSW is sticking with the preferred option for the Milton Ulladulla bypass is controversial. It's also the right call.
For anyone that's reviewed the traffic data, the preferred option will take twice as much congestion out of Milton and Ulladulla than the western options. The preferred option would take 50 per cent of traffic out of town. Western options would only take 25 per cent out of time. That means, in the space of a decade, daily traffic jams would be as bad as they are now if we went west!
Also, do we really want to push our visitors that far west of town? Imagine what that would do to businesses. Keeping tourists close to town is the only way to keep them visiting our ships and businesses.
We also need to think about the cost. Going west would cost way, way more! Do we really want our government to pay more for something that will actually do less? It can't be justified. Would anyone out there buy a TV that worked half as well but cost twice as much? I don't think so.
It's time to accept this is what's happening and we all take a calm breath. The 'West is Best' campaign has been very hard on the people with properties and businesses out west. Can you imagine a mob of people shouting slogans and holding placards effectively saying "Bulldoze their homes, farms and businesses out there!"?
Can you imagine how distressing that would be?.. Not only is that incredibly cruel, it's a demand based on no evidence or traffic data. I understand it's a tough one to swallow, but no government can justify spending more for something that does less.
Jane Phillips
Need for Federal ICAC
The exposure by the National Audit Office of the scandal known as the "sports rorts affair" was yet another in the litany or reasons we seriously need a Federal anti-corruption body.
Now the audit office has found an even more egregious misuse of public money through the $660 million commuter car park program. They found the assessment of projects was inadequate and the entire program lacked transparency.
When added to the $1.8 billion settlement for its "shameful failure" in the robodebt scandal and the $100 million in "sports rorts", this level of misuse of taxpayers' money cries out for further scrutiny. The public interest and plain decency demand a Federal ICAC now!