Expressway rips through Blue Mountains
Friday, June 10th, 2011One by one, roadside vegetation, roadside communities, and villages through the Blue Mountains are capitulating to the New South Wales Government’s agency, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). One diesel-driven programme to convert a regional highway into a dangerously fast heavy trucking expressway.
The RTA is an ‘authority’ alright – a testament to when absolute authority is allowed to overrule local values at any cost.
Leura, Blue Mountains, Australia, 22nd Dec 2006)
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RTA rainfall retention gross failure, Leura 30th June 2005
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Trees hacked to make way for the RTA expressway, 4th February 2007
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RTA construction sediment down the drain and into Blue Mountains World Heritage creeks, 16th January 2006
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