GREAT Lakes Council has welcomed $4.5 million in federal government funding as part of the Roads to Recovery program.
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The money will be given out incrementally over the next five years, equating to about $750,000 per annum.
“Council has identified priority rural and urban gravel roads which will be sealed under this funding,” council’s manager of Transport Assets Greg Pitt said.
“The rural roads which will receive this funding are stages of Wattley Hill Road, Wootton, Bombah Point Road, Bulahdelah, The Branch Lane, The Branch, and Willina Road, Coolongolook.”
Amongst the urban roads to benefit will be Hinton Street, Stroud; Cowper Street, Nabiac; Central Avenue, Bundabah; Church Street, Carrington; Cook Street, Pindimar; Wye Street, Stroud; The Esplanade, North Arm Cove; Cove Avenue, Bundabah; Wharf Street, Nabiac; Warri Street, Pindimar; Second Avenue, Bundabah; Peace Parade, Pindimar; and Prince/Jackson Streets, Bulahdelah.
The Roads to Recovery program has been recurrent over the past eight years with council able to upgrade several roads with the funding.
In recent years, council has used the funding to construct Seal Rocks Road, Bundabah Road, Bede Street, Stroud, Valley Road and Philip Road in Smiths Lake and Morantes and Wombo Streets in Pindimar.
“We are also planning to upgrade several urban roads this year using existing funding,” Mr Pitt said.
“These include Lyn Crescent, Smiths Lake; Farnell Street, Nabiac; Eastslope Way, North Arm Cove; and Gloucester Street, Stroud.”
Federal member for Paterson Bob Baldwin said four councils in the Paterson electorate will receive funding, totalling $13.8 million. They include the Great Lakes, Dungog Shire, Port Stephens and Maitland City.
“I have always maintained that good roads are a pathway to prosperity for communities. Each council’s Roads to Recovery allocation is fixed for the life of the program so they are guaranteed a source of funding,” Mr Baldwin said.
“In other words councils can plan, prepare and initiate works with a guaranteed source of funding.”