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After 13 years promoting the Coastline Cycleway in this region, all at my own expense, and the last 5 years specifically to the S2W project, all vulnerable road users are being side-stepped by the bureaucrats who have total control and choose to not co-operate with community input. It's a sad time when the Community attempts to be part of the process and volunteer their expertise for nil cost and the heads of the RTA/RMS constantly throw curved balls at us to take pressure off the momentum we gain during the process.
For the W2B project I wish to resurrect the Regional Forums so that the RMS, contractors and vulnerable road users are working from the same plan all the way through the project. This way we will be able to achieve what has been on the drawing board for this region since the mid 1980's and is documented at all Councils along this route.
We also need to recognise that 1 million dollars for vulnerable road users in a project such as the S2W gives us about 0.2% of the overall $770 million budget with 99.8% for trucks and cars. It's time to wake up in NSW and see what the other states are implementing and have been for many years now.