Ray Boots, Byron Bay
I would like to make a comment on the double page spread in our local papers – The Echo, and the Byron News – from Byron Council, (the Green Council).
I am amazed by the waste of money that has gone into trying to justify Council’s decision on the bypass down Butler St.
It goes against the community submissions: four FOR the bypass down Butler St, 650-plus AGAINST it (these numbers speak for themselves).
The bypass will destroy a critically endangered snail habitat (among other species and their habitat).
They said: ‘no snails there’.
Then they said how much more they are going to do to replace what was destroyed (propaganda at work).
The rail corridor is wide enough for a bypass, rail trail, and to reinstate the train for future, and this was okay with the State Government in 2001.
This bypass ticks boxes for the West Byron’s traffic management plan, while Butler St is going to be a highway, that’s obvious from the way this road has been constructed.
There’ll be lights like out on the M1 highway.
Seriously, the next thing for us to deal with is this bus interchange, the one that there was absolutely no consultation with the community about.
Council – stop with the propaganda, and listen to the community that
put you there, instead of doing the opposite to satisfy other agendas.
It’s so disappointing, as ratepayers, how we are treated by Byron Council.
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. 
