SAVE OUR COMMUNITY
Evans Family Barn 1890s
There has been a continuous farming history here for almost 200 years, and we cannot imagine why anyone would want to interfere with this.
Old-style farmhouse in Hartley that is the first Hudson precut home erected west of the Blue Mountains around 1900.
The proposed route through the Hartley Valley would require the purchase of portions of many farming properties. causing the disruption of a vigorous and close-knit community, and the disturbance of some of the many historical and tourist elements that make the Valley so important.
In comparison, half the Northern Route is already in place and the remaining 13 kilometres passes along the crown of the ridge within the State Forest that is comprised of open dry schlerophyll forest that has been logged since early times.
Hartley Valley is particularly precious to the people of Sydney, being the closest historic and rural community that still appears to the visitor in its original title as “A Veritable Rest and Be Thankful”.
The Federal Infrastructure studies are planning to deliver international containers to Sydney from Bathurst by B-Double and similar large trucks. The number is expected to rise to 4,000 extra per day, on top of the 10,000 vehicles that use the Great Western Highway at the moment. This translates into one vehicle every 6 seconds, day and night, with all its accompanying noise and pollution.
Ancient cast iron relic.
It makes sense to remove this from the immediate vicinity of populated areas as often, and for as long, as possible.
Agree? Then please TAKE ACTION.
