HARTLEY VALLEY AT RISK!
There are serious threats to the Hartley Valley from the RTA’s proposal for a four-lane highway through the valley.
This project is forcing the people of the Valley to do all in our power to see that the diversion around Mt Victoria continues north past Hartley Valley to form a Northern Route across the Newnes plateau to the west.
The whole of the Blue Mountains is at risk from the proposed use of the highway for B-Double trucks. These monsters are 26 meters long, and discussion with the RTA reveals that they are planning for 4,000 B-Doubles to pass through the mountain townships per day.
4,000 of these B-Doubles will thunder through the mountains every day
B-Double freight trains are taller than your house
Newnes is a road for the future,
the Valley route would be a road through the past
The pristine open spaces of Hartley Valley from the east
TAKE ACTION
Get informed about what’s happening; Email your MP; Attend RTA meetings. Read more
PROTECT HARTLEY’S FLORA AND FAUNA
Hartley Valley is one of the few places in Australia where the transition in flora from a sandstone escarpment to a shale valley is preserved with plants that don’t grow anywhere else. Read more
PRESERVE OUR HISTORY
One of many signs in the Valley against the RTA
Prevent the disturbance of some of the many historical and tourist elements that make the Hartley Valley so important. Read more
PROTECT ABORIGINAL HERITAGE
The proposed route needs to respect and protect significant Aboriginal remains along the ridges and in Hyde Park. Read more
SAVE OUR COMMUNITY
Save historic farming properties, avoid the disruption of a vigorous and close-knit community. Read more
THE PROBLEM
Building a four-lane highway through the Hartley Valley would do enormous and irreparable damage to this historic gateway to the west, it would desecrate a community and provide only a short-term solution. Read more
OUR SOLUTION
The Hartley Valley community has been farming for over 180 years!
A more cost-effective, topographically suitable, community-history-environmentally-friendly solution: The Newnes Plateau Corridor. Read more
LATEST NEWS
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Disclaimer
The Hartley Highway Action Group is a sub-committee of the Hartley District Progress Association Inc ABN 15 268 758 869. Visitors acknowledge that information provided directly or indirectly to this site or in any other manner to the Hartley Highway Action Group Committee may be used in any way deemed appropriate by the Hartley Highway Action Group in pursuing its mission to protect and maintain the historic, environmental and cultural integrity of The Hartley Valley. Thank you for your support.
