TOLLWAYS — a blight on the budget of many a regular motorist, and not just in the big city.
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Tollways come in many guises and ours is the nifty new section of highway at Forty Bends.
You’re right, it’s not a designated tollway at all, but for the government it’s the next best thing — a money box for the Highway Patrol who haunt that road beneath the frowning cliffs of Hassans Walls.
A superb piece of modern road building but with an 80 speed limit, the same as on some of our worst rural roads.
No wonder some many motorists get lulled into a careless right foot and provide a nice little earner for the Department.
Add to that the announcement that the speed camera at the top of Victoria Pass is still near the top of the money earners in NSW and you’re better off catching a train.
The wrecking gang
PREDICTABLY kids on skate boards and scooters have discovered the seating in Lithgow’s Cook Plaza for their jumps. Unless that’s quickly nipped in the bud those obviously costly benches will be as ratty as the battered street furniture in Main Street.
Don’t blame the kids; there are no signs that we noticed banning their activities. Maybe a sort of speed hump near the benches might help.
Those pigeon pests
COUNCIL’S hard working parks staff are having a frustrating time in their attempts to repair the lawns at the northern end of Lithgow’s QE Park. Lithgow’s notorious feral pigeon pests descend and start chomping on the new grass seed as quickly as it is put out. The workers are persevering but it seems to be a losing battle. Perhaps the old imitation hawk trick might work.
Still in QE Park and the rotunda has created a delightful after dark glow since the interior lighting was replaced a few years back. It’s lasted well but four of the eight lights are currently failed. Probably only needs a globe replacement so we look forward to a new glow for Autumn.
Crazy days
WHAT a crazy end to Summer we’ve been experiencing around here. The weather gods seem to have lost the script and are temperatures have been all over the chart. Our January was reportedly the hottest on record, or at least in a very long memory, but over the past couple of weeks the temperatures have been flicking from the low 30s to the mid teens virtually overnight and it’s difficult to know whether to turn on the air conditioner or the heating. Summer officially ends this week but don’t put your swimmers away just yet.
