GCC has been campaigning against this sub-standard road surface, which has been used this past year on everything from suburban culs de sac to major arterials such as Woden’s Hindmarsh Drive. It is harsh, noisy, and in suburban streets highly inappropriate, making for a hazardous ‘cheese grater’ surface for any of our children unlucky enough to come off their bicycle.

And it doesn’t last. At a recent GCC meeting Roads ACT head Tony Gill conceded that the surface would only last 15 years. Yet he also revealed that the Canberra road resealing program is based on a 20-year cycle. So we are on an unsustainable downward cycle?

Many of us have suspected the ACT Government is allowing Canberra's urban assets to gradually run down, and here was confirmation our suspicions are correct.

The ACT's ALP government needs to put an immediate halt to use of this unacceptable road surface on anything other than rural roads. Or the Liberals and Greens need to call them to account on it. This is a city - not a rural backwater.