Edward, surely BCC could come to an arrangement to have these extra fees you speak about waved for yourself and other home owners in the area, for the sake of public safety.

I have friends that live in the Kenmore and Brookfield areas. The views from up in Brookfield are just awesome and to have some super high way through there would be just wrong, but Gap Creek Road does need to be sealed! In all honesty, I can not see how Gap Creek Road could even be considered for such a proposal, further west maybe, but Gap Creek Road, no way, surely this is just an excuse to hold off the road being sealed.

In the year I have been working in the area, I have almost had several head-on accidents due to so much dust being flung up by vehicles heading in both directions at night that you don’t realise where you are, just to realise someone is coming from the opposite direction. Other times I have had to put the left side of my car onto the grass while doing 40km/h because 4WD’s (mainly) are driving up the middle of the road. On one occasion I actually blew a tyre! And when the road is in such repair that a normal car can only do 20km/h you get 4WD’s over taking cars dangerously, almost causing head-on accidents, it’s only a matter of time before they do!

My wife is about to give birth to our first child and I would actually like to see my child grow up instead of losing my life in an accident along Gap Creek Road.

For the sake of saving lives, can a solution be found that takes care of the wild life, keeps the locals happy and allows for Gap Creek to be sealed, it just has to be done.