Region. Super agency a 'golden' opportunity

Western Sydney councils have welcomed the creation of the super-agency, NSW Transport and Infrastructure, as a promising decision by Premier Nathan Rees “We believe it is a golden opportunity to start thinking and planning on a ‘whole of service’ approach,” said Clr Alison McLaren, President, of the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC).“We stand ready at any time to offer our assistance in any such planning”. Clr McLaren said WSROC had been lobbying for some 30 years, with limited success, for better roads and public transport. She said it was only in recent decades that residents had been able to use a “very underdeveloped” road and public transport system to travel across the region to shop, go to work and to enjoy social and sporting occasions. “It is a question of equity,” she said.