The Bells Line of Road would charge a toll for drivers ($12 if I remember correctly from the report launch several years ago) and will be mainly targetted at B-doubles. Not too much publicity about that. So, speeding B-doubles across a tolled freeway doesn’t sound so good. Especially when the other side of the mountains rejects the idea of all that traffic then bottlenecking onto their local roads all the way into Sydney and to the ports.

Do your homework!

I refer to today’s article in the CWD in relation to an effluent recycling plant, in which you said “While ever I’m mayor I will not support it, not because of what it is but because we should look at every other avenue to make sure that would be the last option.”

Why do you want to make sure that would be the last option? It does sound like you are afraid of what it is even though you said it wasn’t, why else would you not support the option?

The recycling plant would be $10 million cheaper than the option to pipe water from the Macquarie. Have you seen or smelt the water in the Macquarie in recent years? It is not very nice at all and your Council wants to add that to the City’s drinking water supply? The recycled effluent would already be drinkable before it went into Suma Park Reservoir; the same cannot be said for Macquarie water, the more expensive and less sustainable option.

The recycling plant is win win, it saves money when compared to piping water whilst being cleaner and it saves your city from having to release the current treated effluent into Summer Hill Creek for communities further downstream to have in their drinking water supplies. People do not realise that they are probably already drinking treated effluent as they live downstream from other towns and cities which simply release their treated effluent into the streams which run downstream from them and goes to the next community’s drinking water supply.

$15 million seems cheap when it will secure your City’s water supply. Seems to me that you should be the recycling plants biggest advocate; think of the result of securing your City’s water supply, adding to local jobs and all for less money than piping unsustainable water.

Regards

Rob