Luke Ingram, Wilsons Creek.
Byron Shire Council, you have a lot to answer for: high rates paid by only 15,000 people, no tourist tax for the two-million-plus visitors each year.
Further increases in rates and the worst bloody roads in the area. In 30 years I have never seen/hit so many potholes from Sunrise to Bruns and Mullum. Shameful.
Don’t just look after Byron Bay!
I have just got home from picking up my son from school, following numerous cars swerving all over the road, in the wet, to try to avoid/hit (causing damage to my car) the massive amount of potholes.
In the last three days I have seen road conditions in Sunrise, Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores, Mullumbimby being some of the worst I have ever experienced. With the main street of Brunswick Heads actually cracking and not far from being a dirt road with bits of asphalt.
People’s lives are now being compromised by the state of the roads in the shire.
I work in Lismore and they have seen catastrophic floods and rain and have a large area of roads to service, yet the majority of their roads are still maintained and in good condition.
Lismore Council also has a Facebook page where residents can give feedback. Whereas Byron Shire Council has no option for this and no clear way of sending feedback except for email or a phone call.
I think Council owes its ratepayers the ability to travel safely on its roads.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
