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2002 (c) Peninsula Community Access Newspaper Inc

 

Umina suffers coronary

 

The main street of Umina is starting to resemble a clogged artery.

Most people who drive for a living understand why these blister bays are not suitable in narrow streets where cars need to be able to turn left out of a grid-locked street.

I have had the personal experience of waiting almost 10 minutes for an ambulance to make the distance from the Ocean Beach Hotel to the Charcoal Chicken shop on a Saturday morning.

I can only assume that the idea is for grid locked tourists to be able to enjoy the view of our new streetscape.

Spare a thought for the property owners, some less than a hundred metres from the main street, who have watched the rebuilding of West St for the third time.

Consider, if you will, that Gosford Council has little if any forward planning to rectify the foreseeable turmoil, not unlike what was allowed to happen to Terrigal over years without proper long range planing.

I have heard that the Esplanade is back on the plans to be cut in half by council bending over backwards to accommodate over-development.

I have it in writing from council that it sees no long-term advantage in putting the waterfront drive through the lane to the Ocean Beach caravan site with a view to it one day reaching the Mount Ettalong Drive.

That access lane had in past years been two way and to ignore the fact there is an opportunity to serve the future needs of our community by prudent acquisition and forward planning shows the calibre of our town planning.

Ed James, Umina