These included traffic flow, the unsafe cycleway, total blockage in accidents, breakdowns and increased usage by the rapidly increasing population of Estella, Boorooma and Gobbagombalin.

The duplication of the bridge with associated roadworks would cost something in the order of $100 million and might be foreseeable in 40 to 50 years’ time.

The last council presented two options for the Sturt Highway bypass of Wagga but appeared to favour a route via Eunony Bridge and Bomen, then onto the Olympic Highway.

The vision of this additional volume of heavy vehicles going in both directions over the present Gobba two-lane bridge is not logical planning.

The Olympic bypass of Wagga, planned largely by Colin Knott, still achieves its main objective.

Mr Knott also planned the bypass of the Sturt Highway in an east-west route from west of Forest Hill to the southern part of Kooringal Road, then along Red Hill Road to its junction with the Olympic Highway.

This plan avoids Gumly, Hammond Avenue and Edward Street, and the immediate plan for a second Gobba Bridge.

It does require work on the crest of Red Hill Road and increases to four lanes in some areas. The problems of roundabouts and heavy vehicles would require consideration of overpasses or underpasses at the main intersection.

The present problems of the Gobba Bridge can be alleviated by CSU’s cooperation in starting and finishing times of lectures and a safe cycleway/footpath

BY BANNING greyhound racing as of July I next year, Mike Baird has sealed his own political fate and that of his deputy, Troy Grant.

They have put their faith in a flawed report that has been compiled by someone who is, apparently, bordering on senility.

Both men have given no thought whatsoever to the loss of jobs and the pain and suffering that the ban will inflict upon thousands of people across the state who rely on the greyhound industry for their livelihood.

But of course all this has been said before.

However, I would like to ask Mr Grant, who just happens to be the minister for justice, just one question.

How can you possible justify punishing 80 per cent of the greyhound owners and trainers who have done nothing wrong for the actions of those 20 per cent who allegedly were involved in live baiting?

For a minister who is supposed to uphold the justice, you are certainly going a funny way about it.

How can you possibly justify turning your back on all those people who have done absolutely nothing wrong?

The only solution that I can come up with is that you have deemed that the innocent are guilty by association.

So, in all your wisdom, how can you possibly justify your actions by punishing all those innocent people?  

I am hoping that you, Mr Grant, will buck the trend and put pen to paper and respond to my query through this newspaper.  

IN RELATION to your editorial “Baird’s final chance for a dignified retreat” (DA, September 23).

You hit the nail on the head but you missed an important point.

The Orange by-election will also be an important litmus test for the National Party, which might be the lapdog of the Liberals, but isn’t the friend of dog racing enthusiasts.