West Popondetta Road Is Being Left Out!

Time and time again, I bump into community members concerned that our group is only focusing on 755 going through Bulolo Drive. To be fair to the community members around West of Popondetta Road, our original petition included Popondetta Road (as a lot of our group members lived around Popondetta Road). The difference is Bulolo Drive has got a small shopping community which the NSW government via bus operators had cut off services that had previously linked communities together, leaving small business desperate and wondering why doesn't the government care? These local community shops could be left as a possable future ghost town.

Relating to West of Popondetta Road - there is quite a distance to walk to the nearest bus op - limited shopper hoppers at Bulolo Drive, Luxford Road or around the corner to Woodstock Avenue. From the governments point of view and bus operaters, cutting services from small streets or crooked streets and placing buses into straighter roads. Well Popondetta Road is a straight road (except when it stops at Luxford Road). Then most roads turn into other roads - these bureaucrats and politicians are not working towards communities being linked by infrastructer that makes life easy - not to take away and rip out from their community hearts. To me if a community has been using transport that has been provided for decades - who has the right to take it away from us? why take it away from us?

What the NSW Government didn't realise is that there are a lot of people affected with this negative decsionss from all different age groups, children, workers, shoppers that need to use our public transport regularly to and from Mount Druitt (major shopping centre) take an average increase of 5 minutes per trip to reach the nearest bus stop destination. Yes walking may be good for health but walking in the heat or rain carrying full of shopping bags or work bags can lessen the quality time we spend with our families at home. Families do need more time at home, to enjoy their time and life with all members!

The damage has been done - but the repair that is needed would ease the lifestyles of community members that has dramatically and emotionally affected. We only ask for one thing bring those buses taken away from us! Especially West of Popondetta Road.

NB: There is s Busways Service 745 route which does run past West of Popondetta Road but that gets nowhere to Mount Druitt - it is a Castle Hill to St Marys Service. Patronage is rather low on West according to Popondetta Road according to one well respected communjity member whom lives around West of Popondetta Road.