hhag newsletter 7
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Public Meeting
4pm Saturday 26th September, Hartley School Hall
Consider future direction for Hartley Highway Action Group, Consider possible re-constitution of committee, Consider future strategy for the valley’s defence, join us for afternoon tea from 3.30
The last week of August saw the Honourable Michael Daley, Minister for Roads in the NSW government, make announcements in Mt Victoria and Lithgow in respect of the Mt Victoria to Lithgow GWH upgrade. The essence of that announcement was that the GWH upgrade should be effected within the orange corridor, explaining that “This option has the least combined impact on the many significant issues identified so far in the (RTA) consultation process including local aboriginal heritage and environment considerations, engineering restraints, economic and social impacts and cost.” This is a decision made by political government but clearly informed by the several million dollars of work that the RTA has already completed investigating constraints within each of the four nominated corridors. What we are seeing is a massive acceleration in the process that the RTA has imposed upon us.
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