Ed, I note with much interest an article by Rodney Stevens (page 3 CVI March 5), relating CVC investigating a marked pedestrian crossing on Yamba Road. The comment from Mrs Latter should be expanded to “there’s no Zebra crossing and no lights from Yamba Street to Maclean”. I further note with much interest that current considered site for a crossing is the Golding Street region of Yamba Road, because of the explosion of residential development in that area. Please allow me to point out another region of Yamba Road that has suffered the same fate. We reside at Palmlake Oyster Cove, at 1 Orion Drive. In this resort alone we have 184 dwellings. Allowing for single occupancies provides a pool of at least 300 people. Then we have the new Palmlake Yamba Cove Resort, at No 2 Orion Drive, with approval for a further 74 dwellings, again allowing for single occupancies provides a pool of a further 100 people. I might add that both of these are “over 50’s” Resorts, so most of the occupants are active people. Given the above criteria we have a pool of 400 residents living within 500 metres of Yamba Road and 900 metres of the Treelands Drive shopping centre, many of whom like us, walk to the shops several times a week. Most who walk use the “safety zone” crossing between Providence Circuit and Tom Thumb Place, however the barriers of this zone have been “wiped out” several times since we began using it in 2016. With the volume of traffic today in both directions during daylight hours and the speed at which it travels, you virtually place your life on the line every time you attempt to cross Yamba Road. The population figures used above only include the Resorts and not the people from the private residences down Orion Drive and its offshoots or the other major residential development on the opposite side of Yamba Road. I whole heartedly agree with Mrs Latter “Give us some crossings before a death” or are we to be totally enslaved to the automobile and allow it uninterrupted and unfettered access to our urban area regardless of the safety of we citizens. I note the CVC timeline comment for the crossing, and I question why has this matter only arisen in the Active Transport Strategy in 2024, when it has been obvious to me since moving here 9 years ago, I suggest it might be the usual lack of infrastructure planning in the mad rush for expansion. A final message for CVC, stop prevaricating, forget the Red Tape crap, “JUST DO IT”, before someone is killed. Denis Kelly, Yamba