Briefly they want a place where the community and businesses will thrive.

A place full of services, shops, cultural and recreational spaces, is contemporary, respects heritage, visual identity and where everyone can move safely and efficiently.

But the architects offer no solutions for improvements to traffic flow other than suggesting we use other forms of transport like buses, pushbikes or walking to reduce the impact of vehicles and allow different patterns of movement and speeds.

Well, here's a tip for them and it could save millions of dollars.

We could always follow Paris' way-out ideas and ban all cars from the city more than 10 years old. Just think. If Orange City Council adopted the crazy plan, because of the age of our vehicles our streets would be cleared of thousands of cars, the result the architects want. But off-roaders would reign.

Latest Roads and Maritime Services figures for the last three months of 2019 show the average age of the 46,128 vehicles registered in Orange is 11.8 years so think how many could be consigned to the wreckers. The breakdown shows the average age of cars is 10.7 years, people movers 10.6 years, light trucks 10 years and motorcycles 10.9 while the off-roaders' average is only 8.8 years.

The architects want to get rid of vehicles and turn the CBD into a 'strong food and hospitality retail site with a highly amenable streetscape with wide footpaths to allow for outdoor dining, artisanal food and wine outlets and gastro-pubs to support Orange as a tourist destination...' lt's been said architecture should excite you.

Would these Summer Street proposals do that?

Regional Express deputy chairman John Sharp isn't afraid to wield a big stick to get what he wants even though he has a country background.

Before last weekend's Federal Government $298 million bailout for regional airlines, he'd threatened it wouldn't be possible to fly COVID-19 testing samples from regional areas to capital cities for analysis unless Rex received financial help.

He also said it wouldn't be possible to fly critical blood supplies daily to regional communities. John Sharp was the Nationals MP for Hume that takes in Cowra, Young and Goulburn and a former minister for transport and regional development. For 17 years he was National Party honorary treasurer.

As a farmer he completed an associate diploma in farming management at Orange Agricultural College, now CSU, and was a member of Young Shire Council.

He's still on the Federal Government's Climate Change Authority and lives on a country estate at Exeter in the Southern Highlands. But in a help-us-or-lose-us plea he also said network schedule changes would be made based on the support provided from councils and state governments.

Rex was prepared to exit country routes with 'no or inadequate support' from councils, deeming them 'non-viable'. So look out Orange City Council. John Sharp could be coming to get you if you don't toe the line.

Two dogs are walking along the street. They're passed by another dog driving a truck with a big load of logs on the back. One turns to the other and says: "He started fetching a stick and built up his business from there."