Bowral effectively has three thoroughfares, Mittagong has two and we have the mess that is Argyle Street.

So, where does council plan to spend millions of dollars? - Yep, you guessed it, on Station Street, Bowral, recipient of most of Council's largesse.

We have the insanity of three car spaces outside Whites, which, when occupied, completely block through traffic.

We have two rail underpasses blocked off rather than expanded to further prevent opportunities to detour and we have zero attempt by our council to develop a comprehensive traffic plan for Moss Vale while we slowly choke.

This is the council that with the RMS has the hide to use traffic congestion as the excuse for blocking development of the blight that is the old Central Hotel block, a blight that they are quite happy to have us live with as they spend our money on lawyers  in the Land and Environment Court.

A traffic plan that encompasses a Moss Vale by-pass, and more immediately a new traffic flow system for our existing streets is long overdue.

Our traffic problems can be alleviated now, the implementation of one way streets and elimination of parking on the right hand side of Argyle Street going south are but two options.

Obviously there will be the usual uproar from the "not in my backyard" brigade but surely we deserve some action from RMS and council to a problem that is growing and will get progressively worse as the Southern villages continue to expand.

In the meantime we live with a council whose attitude to Moss Vale, the Southern Gateway to the Highlands, is "let them eat cake".

With the Victorian government becoming the latest state to move to ban single use plastic bags it is very disappointing that the Liberal/National Government is now the lone state in Australia still refusing to address this type of plastic pollution.

Plastic contributes to 70 per cent of the pollution in our oceans, our rivers and on our beaches.

Millions of seabirds and hundreds of thousands of turtles, dolphins, seals and other sea mammals die every year as a result of ingesting plastic.

Over 90 per cent of marine life now has plastic in their systems.

Plastic is beginning to enter the food chain.

In NSW 61million plastic bags are littered every year.

This week was an opportunity for NSW to take action however Labor’s bill to ban single use plastic bags was rejected by the Liberal and National party MPs.

In the past Liberal and National MPs have stated their support for a ban.

I urge them to redouble their efforts to gain support for a ban on plastic bags.

If Labor is elected in 2019, we will take action to free our rivers, oceans, beaches, parks and wildlife from the pollution caused by plastic bags.