Letter to the Editor: Roundabout roadworks

DEAR News Of The Area,

I WOULD like to draw your readers attention to the ongoing road works just south of Lake Cathie that hundreds of motorists must traverse each day at 40km/h.

This project to install a roundabout on Ocean Drive was begun last year and is about 300 metres in length.
For some absurd reason the Council in their wisdom decided to lower the road level by about a metre which has resulted in extensive earthworks even before the construction of the roundabout.

This project still is nowhere finished and to be quite frank, I cannot ever recall in all the cities I have lived, a roundabout taking almost a year to complete?

I feel sorry for the residents opposite the roundabout having to try to negotiate a way out of their homes, let alone the ambulances and the elderly living in the Manor nursing home.

Maybe someone at Council can explain why a roundabout and 300 metres of roadworks should take so long, and who bears the cost?
Perhaps they have an answer?

I cannot imagine delays of this nature happening at Port Macquarie or some other large centre?

Yours sincerely,

Tony EVANS,

Lake Cathie.