Only in New South Wales could a government spend $50 million on a bridge and still not fix the traffic. MP Jenny Aitchison’s grand plan for the Thornton Bridge upgrade has locals shaking their heads — and laughing it straight out of town.
The project promises to “ease congestion” and “improve safety,” but anyone who actually drives through Thornton can see what’s coming. The bridge might be wider, but the traffic still squeezes back into a single lane. Nothing’s been solved — just shifted a few hundred metres down the road.
Locals aren’t buying it.
Mat said it plainly:
“I’m concerned you think this would actually work.”
Rissa had a bit more to say:
“Who honestly gets paid to design these things? Clearly they don’t sit in the traffic every day. You’re just moving the bottleneck to a different spot! It should be two lanes the whole bloody way. Absolutely ridiculous waste of money.”
Norman offered the kind of logic Transport for NSW never seems to grasp:
“Spend the money and put the road from the motels roundabout through to Raymond Terrace Road, with offshoots to Thornton and Woodberry.”
Locals have been stuck in gridlock for years, and this project doesn’t fix that — it just makes for a good media release and a few photo ops.
This isn’t progress. It’s a $50 million patch job dressed up as planning. And when it’s finished, drivers will still be sitting in the same queue, wondering where all that money went.