Blue Mountains {city} Council seems focused on pedestrian safety of late, finally. This is a positive development for the benefit of improving the safety of locals and visitors alike. So, we note new speed humps in Katoomba town centre area. However, none of which are actual speed humps that require vehicles to slow down without experiencing the most minor of […]
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Blue Mountain’s Council Mayor Mark Greenhill has presided over perpetual hiking track closures since February 2020, and it’s nearly two years on. Leura Cascades was closed in February 2020 during a known and predictable La Niña period heavy rainfall weather pattern which deluged the east coast of New South Wales including the Blue Mountains region. Substandard stormwater drainage brought on a […]
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Katoomba now Australia’s Booze Capital
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Here we go again… Bushfires lockdown the entire Blue Mountains The widespread bushfire ‘mega-blaze‘ disaster of Christmas 2019 that was mishandled and allowed to rage and spread over two months, ended up destroying 80 percent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area as well as many other natural regions of New South Wales. Dubbed by our sister conservation entity […]
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Fifty buses a day – huge tourist coaches and mini-buses – concentrate on retail Leura Mall. It’s crazy and unfair. Bus congestion dominates Leura daily due to corporate tourism promotion of the Blue Mountains and specifically Leura to encourage the inbound tourist trade. But has Leura’s retail, attractions and accommodation benefitted? No. A local council traffic survey of just 200 […]
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