DEAR News Of The Area,
IT is with some surprise that I find myself compelled to write this letter of commendation and appreciation of our past Dungog Councils.
Like everyone else in the community, for years, indeed half my lifetime, if I saw two or more people engaged in earnest conversation, I could bet they would be complaining about “the state of Dungog’s roads”.
And the criticism was deserved.
Dungog LGA had the reputation of having the worst roads on the continent.
At Broome years ago in a caravan park, when I told a fellow caravaner that I was from Dungog, his reaction was, “Oh God, the town with the worst roads in the country”.
He was right.
But successive Councils, beginning with Mayor Tracey Norman, and on down the line to the present time have succeeded in persuading the NSW Government to release decent monies to our Council to do a proper job on our roads.
The outcome is that after all these extended seasons of endless wet weather, our roads have mostly stood up to the job and are a pleasure to drive, as opposed to some of those of our neighbouring LGAs which have not handled it so well.
Some of our back roads are even seeing some work done which has been desperately needed for 50 years, and are being rebuilt along their worst patches.
So, I would like to say “Nice work” to our Councils of the past few years, and I urge our present crew of Councillors to keep up the good work.
And it is worth noting that we are still the only Council in NSW without a government managed or supported road.
How does that work?
Regards,
Tom BOORER,
Dungog.
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