Vanity project or a rort?

I am writing in regards to the fiasco that is the Woy Woy underpass and now also the halting of Bulls Hill Rd.

I believe it is time for an entire review to be taken of the Peninsula roadwork project and for us to "follow the money".

As a resident, it now appears that we [the locals] have been given a very expensive white elephant of a pedestrian underpass which appeared to be both simultaneously over-engineered (it would have been more appropriate for a Moore Park Sports Stadium) as well as under-engineered (it is unusable in the rain secondary to flooding) with no viable access road.

I think it is time that we seriously question the entire project, including who authorised, and profited from, an underpass project when it is obvious that the more vital stages of the project, the actual road works, are never going to be built nor completed.

How much finance was used for consultants, project managers and contractors for work that apparently isn't going to continue?

As a resident, I have been recently involved in two near accidents at the same intersections adjoining the rail overpass.

Once I was almost knocked off my scooter by someone illegally going across.

Someone is going to get killed if we do not pursue this matter.

It is obvious that someone has been paid millions for a piece of public infrastructure that is either a vanity project or a rort.

As a community we have been seriously ripped off, though looking at other issues surrounding the Woy Woy and Umina area (lack of kerbing and guttering for example), it seems it is just the same old, same old.

Email, 5 May 2016

Tracey Dillon, Woy Woy