The process of implementing a regional waterbus network will encourage our land-based counterparts to engage on the specific issues at hand.
Indeed land-based passenger transport will have an important role to play in plans to develop the Gosford Foreshore given the lack of car parking space and the anticipated increase in both pedestrian and vehicular traffic congestion.
While public plans for a Gosford Marina have been ongoing since 1997, they remain largely premature to the extent that a viable regional waterbus route between Woy Woy and the Gosford Waterfront has intrinsic planning priority.
If our largest population centre by both urban area and population density happens to be on The Peninsula then it only makes sense to meaningfully connect its residents to our regional capital.
Furthermore, this challenge will not be solved in any sustainable manner by widening our roads for more cars, electric or otherwise.
A regional waterbus network would also ensure that coastal communities without proximity to the rail network received priority waterborne access, point-to-point, to essential services via the only two geographical locations on the Central Coast where road, rail, and water all converge: Woy Woy and Wyong.