LITHGOW City Council has agreed to the installation of signage along the Cox’s Road and will consider allocating $20,000 in 2013-14 management plan for the signage if state and federal government funding is not forthcoming.
The interpretive signage along the Cox’s Road is part of the Blue Mountains crossing commemoration activities planned for 2013-15.
The road crosses through the Penrith, Blue Mountains, Oberon, Lithgow and Bathurst local government areas (LGAs).
There are still remnants of the road, which was built by William Cox and his crew of convicts in 1814, along which Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1815 travelled to the site where he proclaimed the township of Bathurst.
Lithgow Council is seeking funding in stages in order to have all signage installed by 2015.
The convenor of the project National Trust’s Cox’s Road Project Committee (CRPC) Patsy Moppett has advised the Blue Mountains Crossing Bicentenary Committee of Lithgow City Council that Oberon Council already has signage in place funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Heritage.
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