Bega MP Andrew Constance says Moruya would have a new bridge and bypass within four years if the Coalition is returned to government in NSW.
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Mr Constance was speaking at his campaign launch in Moruya on Wednesday, March 6.
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Moruya Business Chamber president Jude Manahan sought more detail at the launch, before committing the chamber to a position on the election promise. Mr Constance told her the bridge could be built within four years. See video below.
Bay Post/Moruya Examiner reporter Joel Erickson asked Mr Constance about the effect a bypass could have on the Moruya economy. See video below.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the long-term plan was a divided dual carriageway to the Victorian border. See video below.
Allan Rees, convenor of climate action group 350 Eurobodalla, was among a group of about 20 protestors who attended the campaign launch.
He said a "motorway" to the border was not necessarily the way forward and fixing black spots on the highway might be enough to save lives.
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Protestors included members of Southcoast Health and Sustainability Alliance (SHASA).
"With less than an hours notice, a number of people from Eurobodalla community groups attended the launch to highlight their concerns with the NSW Liberals and Andrew Constance's environmental performance," Mr Rees said.
"Andrew Constance supports continued over logging of our native forests, recreational fishing in the high conservation fish breeding zones of the Batemans Bay Marine Park, no renewables target for NSW, and the Eurobodalla Council's proposed Rural Lands Strategy/ planning proposal which will remove a number of important environmental protections for native forests, wetlands and waterways on private land."
