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Absolute chaos

By George Graham, Byron Bay 
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A forty minute drive from Suffolk Park to Byron Bay High School.

Hundreds of students sitting on buses late for school.

HSC students stressing about not getting to their HSC exam on time.

Hundreds of workers sitting in their cars late for work. Thousands of hours of people’s time wasted all for what?

A team of tree loppers closed one lane so they could trim branches over the bikeway.

This is a busy road at that time and usually a slow crawl but onthe morning of Tuesday, 25 October it was a parking lot.

We have seen it before but no one learns.

Council should have a protocol that no road into Byron Bay should be impeded at peak hour.

George Graham, Byron Bay

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