This is some news with photos which I have put on indymedia with some comments. There is also contact details should you wish to ask questions. I will be doing stuff on Piles Creek also.

Thanks for such an interesting comment, the more we know about these stories the more questions arise.

If you would like instructive photos taken inside the pipes on Woy Woy Road just ask. I also have photos taken inside the pipes at Piles Creek post collapse and under Leask Creek prior to the collapse and inside the pipes under the near collapse on Central Coast Highway at Kariong Hill and also the Concrete culvert just up the hill about thirty meters from that spot. Another culvert which is also breaking apart due to undermining with water. The bought and paid for media is perceived to be avoiding informing its readership of the full story. Why?
Edward James

Secondly, and perhaps more on relevantly - It’s truly disappointing that there appears to have been a consistently contemptuous approach to the maintenance of arterial roads within the Gosford City Council governing area. There have been more cracks, erosion, and general road damage come to light over the last 6 months - reaching nearly phenomenal levels. Such as the main erosion on Bulls Hill, the crack further up that strip, another on the approach from Kariong, and a disaster waiting to happen with significant erosion on the downhill slope of the Pacific Highway towards Gosford.

All of which did not come to light until nearly 12 months after a almost identical - yet fatal - incident on the Pacific Highway going through Somersby. Unfortunately rather than performing an assessment of other local roads roads in similar environmental contexts or performing a revision of policy and funding around the issues of assessment and maintenance we merely had a series of underfunded bureaucrats rushing to save their jobs. And who can blame them? Assuming that at least the majority of them are genuinely doing there best to improve the state of affairs, how can you fight against a corroding system?

This issue has raised the pulse on a great number of people within our community in an unprecedented way. It’s fantastic to see so much will and unity, however I can’t help but feel that directing our anger at current officials for in-action or delays is (at this stage) the most effective course of action. Sure it may be immediately satisfying, however the years of inaction are exactly that. Years of inaction. Once the physical issue of Woy Woy Road has been resolved we must persist with this energy to resolve the bureaucratic road blocks that have hampered or avoided the maintenance of these core elements of infrastructure on the coast.

Awesome news (may be I should put a countdown on this page? )
And if they build walking track it would be even better!

Your paper looks the only one still interested in Woy Woy road affair.
The rest, however, mentioned 50-meter crack in the road this week; but I can’t see why it should delay Bulls hill repair though..

On to Woy Woy Rd, it should be open to traffic both ways by August 22 (one of council’s acting directors claim). Cr Holstein is making sure that the issue is paid attention to. They have also found another crack about 60 metres up the road from the first one, according to The Bays Community Group vice president. This is what is causing the further delay apparently.