I'm not the only person who thinks that the flow of information about the closure (which it appears never happened) of the Great Western Highway in Bathurst because of the rising waters of the Macquarie River was badly handled.
Bathurst's daily paper, The Western Advocate, has two stories on its website this morning: Traffic chaos reigns in rain and Flood of misinformation (there are several other flood stories).
No one knows who started the closure of road at 3pm story, but it was certainly in wide circulation in down town Bathurst on Wednesday afternoon.
There is now a local police information line for road closures in the central west: 1800 227 228. I'll be trying it later this morning to check on the state of roads for our trip to Canowindra (via Orange). The Belabula River peaked at 5.1 metres at 10 am (not earlier, as I was told).
The GWH at Bathurst is apparently back to four lanes, so the trip may not be too bad.
A squelchy weekend ahead.
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