IT’S fashionable, in fact almost obligatory, to criticise all levels of government.
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Sometimes those brickbats are even justified. OK, mostly!
Here in Greater Lithgow the brickbats hurled at our civic administration have had a common thread over decades of successive councils - a reluctance to seriously commit to addressing local environmental issues right across the Local Government Area..
Other towns in the region realised the need for such commitment long ago and reaped the benefits while we were still navel gazing.
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There has clearly been some noteworthy progress but the bigger picture has always eluded councils, particularly in and around the Lithgow CBD.
Nothing sums up this blinkered vision more than the recent wholesale ‘de-greening’ of our CBD then proudly lauding it has ‘revitalisation’.
Go figure.
On a brighter note, council continues to win year round praise for Queen Elizabeth Park.
Treat you senses with a stroll though the famous avenue of roses now in full bloom. It’s a sheer delight.
Success story
ON that next Sunday drive down the Mountains check out the new pedestrian and cycle bridge spanning the Nepean River at Emu Plains. Roads and Maritime have excelled themselves with a spectacularly designed and well executed structure that is immediately becoming a tourist highlight in its own right.
The multi million dollar project was commissioned to separate cyclists and walkers from the traffic on the old and narrow Victoria road bridge and clearly no expense was spared.
A sad reminder
RESIDENTS of Laurence Street in Lithgow are becoming increasingly concerned at the dilapidated condition old Olympic Takeaway on the corner of The Avenue. The Olympic was the last of Lithgow’s once thriving corner stores but closed some years ago after a series of owners tried and failed.
Vandals have now been progressively wrecking the place with smashed windows and doors and trashed interior. It surely fits the criteria required for council to take overdue and urgent action.
Also becoming an unwelcome eyesore on the Great Western Highway is the flapping remnant of the elevated sign outside the long vacant café (once the first Pizza Hut) at Bowenfels.