WE’RE comfortably up and running with 2018 and the old Mort Street TAFE building retains its status as Lithgow’s worst eyesore, a crumbling relic of what was once a key payer in our community.
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There are other contenders for the unwanted title but this one retains its place by virtue of its ugly bulky prominence on a prime highway location.
We lived in hope of better things ahead after new owners took possession from the less-than-houseproud previous occupiers but a long way down the track it remains a blight on our community.
A reality check
IT was only last week we were rightly celebrating a calendar year without a single road fatality in the Lithgow local government area.
But just days later and one of our residents has died in a late night collision at Mt Lambie. It was a reality check and a reminder that road trauma in just one careless second away. Let’s try to make the rest of 2018 tragedy free.
What’s it all about?
THE work on the ‘beautification’ of the Lithgow CBD is well under way and while understandably not everyone is happy at the disruption it’s a case of short term pain for what we are assured will be long term gain.
It might ease some of the concerns if someone painted a word picture of the envisaged finished product.
But after a raft changes and deletions to fit the budget no one that we’ve spoken to seems to really know.
Shattered history
ON the subject of the CBD program you can grab a little of our history if a chunk of concrete is to your liking.
Main Street, if our history recollection is correct, was concreted as an unemployment relief project during the so called Great Depression of the 1930s. It has stood the test of time reasonably well.
Now with the area around Eskbank Street intersection being torn up for the first time in the major part of a century we’re anxious to see just what takes its place. Meantime there’s that vintage concrete...!
