We Need Your Vote
If you are 18 or over please enrol to vote by 6pm, Monday 26th July for the local council elections on Saturday 4th September! Two not-for-profit railway companies have been registered to bring back rail services. If you vote for candidates supporting the rail with a bike trail beside it, we’ll have our best possible chance to bring this about. Tweed Shire Council recently voted for contractors Hazell Bros to build a bike path on the railway formation between Murwillumbah and Crabbes Creek. At the twelfth hour, just before the vote, something strange happened: Cameron Arnold, Vice President of NSW Rail Trails and CEO of Destination North Coast, stated that Deputy Premier John Barilaro had called and said that the rail trail had to be built on the rail formation and the tracks had to be pulled up, otherwise the council would lose their funding! This was news to the councillors and staff, and also the contractor who had done tenders for both on and off the rail formation, according to o...