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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

Was the long wait for last leg of bypass a punishment for city?

IN the mid 1970s the ALP rejected the then DMR (Dept of main roads) and City Engineers proposal to build this bypass as a motorway through Blackbutt Reserve. This decision had widespread environmental and community support.

It has only taken 50 years to find an alternative route that, surprisingly, has been there all this time.

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