ORANGE City Council's spending on road repairs for the next 12 months does not include one of the heaviest-used roads in the area - Ophir Road from the bypass to the refuse centre.
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At least 50 garbage, green waste and recycling truck movements a day occur on this road, then you have the large semi-trailer bins of waste being taken to Molong, recycling being taken to Sydney in large semi –trailers, large truckloads of paper and cardboard and the skip bins, plus trucks and householders delivering waste to the tip.
All material now delivered to the refuse centre is transported from the area. The only thing that remains is the smell and dust.
Also, you have increasing local traffic from as far out as Ophir, school buses and tourists.
All this traffic on a road constructed for mainly rural traffic, and council has no plans to upgrade the road they are seriously overloading.
Charles Everett, Orange