WE face two important challenges to our city's progress. First, there is limited parking in Newcastle West, and second, the light rail must be extended through Broadmeadow/Hunter Park to the hospital.
The proposed car park in Tighe Street ('Car park court appeal', Newcastle Herald 3/5) makes perfectly good planning sense considering how the city is shifting west including services, business, commercial and retail development, as well as an increasing number of residential towers. The light rail's success is dependent on extension, and the provision of an inexpensive, efficient and safe public transport network.
