Kerry Brown, Jessica Lawn and Bill Pixton
It takes a fair amount of blood, sweat and tears (not to mention money, especially money) to turn “a pig’s ear into a silk purse.”
One of Australia's primary natural tourist sites for countless decades has been The Three Sisters. Yet such an important tourist destination was often lost in the blandness of the gateway, Lurline Street. A group calling itself “Treeline Lurline” has organized itself with an objective is to transform Lurline Street into a tree filled boulevard. Treeline Lurline is apparently one of the many initiatives undertaken by the UMAA or the Upper Mountain Arborist Alliance (http://umaa.org.au/treeline-lurline-katoomba/).
At its simplest, Treeline Lurline is a community based initiative involving committed and passionate local residents, community groups, local businesses and professionals working together with Blue Mountains City Council for the re-beautification of Lurline street in Katoomba.
Their shared vision is for an avenue of trees with public seating, water stations and trees lining the 1.2km walk from the Katoomba CBD to Echo Point. Working with the Mayor and supported by Blue Mountain Council, UMAA is proposing a working budget of $25,000,000.
This clearly is a worthwhile project and worthy of the support of all the Mountains’ Rotary Clubs.