Oh, oh Bill! Looks like you've just lost the revhead vote, and there's plenty of 'em.
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It may turn out to be just a Labor thought bubble on the rocky road to the 'real' election campaign but he-who-would-be-PM has stirred the emotions with his promise of a 50 per cent quota on car sales in Australia.
Now just how he plans to bring that to reality is still to be answered but it's already been declared a no go zone by the multitudes whose love affair with a petrol guzzler is second only to their missus, and not always in that order.
And it's not just the thrill that comes with sound and the fury of a hearty gurgle of exhaust gas, it's the safety question with electric cars.
Anyone whose life and limb has been threatened by a whispering electric mobility scooter will know what we mean.
"They'll never get me into an electric car," is the word around the bar.
And in Revhead Heaven they'll be declaring ámen to that!'
It's a good start
FINALLY Lithgow's largely unloved Cook Street Plaza is a little more lovable - quite a bit more actually. Last week Council teams introduced the long promised movable pot plants and assorted creature comforts. Instant improvement. But the plaza will continue to suffer an image problem until something creative can be done with the drab and tired walls on the commercial buildings bordering the site.
Tidy Towns is on the case seeking approvals for murals to brighten the surroundings (think the old Victory Theatre at Blackheath) so there may be better days ahead. Meantime, have you checked out the updated history mural on the Eskbank railway bridge? They attract almost as many visitor photos as Our Marjorie at the plaza.
Better options?
SO now there's an apparently positive move towards a highway tunnel to resolve the otherwise impossible situation with the bottleneck at Blackheath's Govetts Leap Road' intersection. It's more realistic than the pre-election brainwave by hopefuls in Orange for a tunnel beneath the entire Blue Mountains to Lithgow. But perhaps the huge costs in tunnelling could be more effectively directed to the more positive benefits from the stalled Bells Line Expressway wish list.
The landlords
A pleasing sign of confidence in Lithgow when the Main Street premises housing the local Westpac Bank branch was quickly snapped up at auction by another Sydney investor last week. It followed on a similar result when the local ANZ Bank premises was placed on the market.
