Motorway project caused rail underpass canning

The disastrous WestConnex motorway project in Sydney is the reason the Woy Woy rail crossing project was canned.

Across NSW, folk are finding promised upgrades for essential rail, road, hospital and schools have had their budgets slashed.

Mike Baird and Duncan Gay are desperate to fund a motorway project that is out of control, and the rest of the state pays, dearly.

We have been hit with a double whammy.

Residents have slammed the closure of Newcastle station, with the insane notion to sell of the rail corridor to a developer clique.

In the meantime, commuters will face years being forced to transfer onto buses at Hamilton, waiting for the light rail to eventuate.

The Coast is desperate for faster through trains to both Sydney and Newcastle, and more services late into the evening.

We need better options for park 'n' ride.

We need direct bus services to key locations.

We need local road upgrades, like the Peninsula crossing, despite our electoral colour.

We need infrastructure equality across the state.

Instead, the Baird Government has wasted billions of our taxpayer dollars on WestConnex when it knows this tollway will never work.

The Baird Government is listening only to corporate lobbyists.

So here we are: Stuck in traffic jams, facing dangerous rail crossings or sitting on slow public transport.

It won't improve either, because innovative transport plans won't happen if left to the whim of the bumbling Duncan Gay.

Letter, 16 Nov 2016

Kate English, Copacabana