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A telecommunications tower will be built in the village of Goolma this year.
Member for Parkes Mark Coulton confirmed the tower is committed for funding on radio this week.
On Tuesday the Guardian spoke with residents of Goolma Road who pleaded for a fix to the notorious black spot following a fatal accident on Sunday.
“If you do have an accident or come across an accident on that road you’ve got to find signal,” said Trish Murray, who receives just one signal bar from her property.
“Sometimes you don’t get that ‘SOS ONLY’, we can’t even get that, there’s nothing, it’s black.”
Mr Coulton said consultation with local government and community stakeholders identified Goolma village as the most appropriate location for a tower.
“There has been a call to put it up at Mt. Bodangora which would do a certain area but that would miss the town of Goolma,” Mr Coulton told the ABC.
“That’s one of the real difficulties of telecommunications in that part of the world, heading over that way towards Mudgee there are very distinct valleys and so the position that was identified in the program was Goolma.
“It’ll do more than the village of Goolma it’ll go up into the valley that Goolma’s in that people have had no telecommunications before and also are suffering up there because of the poor state of the infrastructure of their current landlines.”
He conceded that the tower would not reach all sections of the road.
“Some will miss out but we’ve got to continue this rollout.”
Mr Coulton said a change of government on July 2 would not affect construction.
“They’re ordering the nuts and bolts now to put the one [tower] at Goolma together and so I am looking forward to see that go ahead. The people of Goolma have gone through a lot for four of five years now lobbying for this so it’s good to be close to the end of it. But not only that there’s a lot of people who use that road between Dubbo and Mudgee and Wellington and Mudgee.”