By Briar Sinclair
HOBSONS Bay City Council has given up on the Inner West Integrated Transport Strategy (IWITS) being released this financial year.
A report tabled at a meeting last Monday night said the Council could not implement the strategy until the State Government had completed and released it.
“It appears that it is unlikely to be completed in 20052006,” the report read.
Works and assets director Phillip McDonald said the strategy “seems to be dragging”.
“It’s been going for more than three and a half years,” he said.
“We keep being advised that something is going to happen but nothing has.
“I think they are delaying it but hopefully it will be released in the near future.”
Williamstown Ward councillor Angela Altair said the council was “virtually paralysed” in implementing complimentary transport strategies until the IWITS was released.
“We keep harping on it and I’m sure Mr McDonald is suffering the same frustrations,” she said.
But a State Government spokeswoman said the strategy would be released “later this year”.
The government seems to be readying itself for the release of the muchanticipated document.
A previously public website for the strategy is now only accessible with a Department of Infrastructure password, suggesting the strategy may not be far off.
