While it may be exciting for some to have a world-class motor racing track in our midst ("Start your engines", Herald, 27/3 and "Black Rock circuit for all drivers, says boss", Herald, 1/4), celebration by the Lake Macquarie mayor, council and state MPs is misguided.
With so many former mine sites begging to be properly rehabilitated and repurposed, the replacement of already mostly reforested land (home to threatened species of owls, gliders and plants, to name just a few of the site's attributes) with an asphalt covered heaven for noisy petrol-powered vehicles is absurd.
