It will set the Orana region’s transport agenda for the next 20 years, covering everything from bus connections and rest stops, to rail line improvements and road network maintenance.
NSW Roads Minister Jenny Atchison has unveiled the draft Central West and Orana Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plan (SRITP) for public consultation, calling on the region’s residents to be “frank and fearless” in saying what they want to see.
The plan cites large population jumps in regional centres Bathurst, Orange and Dubbo and some small increases in all but a handful of shires in the next two decades…