The Blue Mountains mayor has called for NSW government help as visitors return to the area, calling it 'bedlam', as other regions also expressed reservations.
The Blue Mountains mayor is calling on the NSW government for help following a weekend of"bedlam" when people pushed over barricades and crowds had to be dispersed, as visitors returned to the tourist hotspot.
Cr Greenhill has written to the premier and health minister requesting assistance because, he says, even now"there's no social distancing happening up here".Govett's Leap Waterfall, one of the many stunning sites you can see while bushwalking in the Blue Mountains.A number of areas, including Echo Point and Lincoln's Rock, are closed due to COVID-19 but as people have returned to the mountains, directions have been ignored and streets have become crowded.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Wednesday confirmed intrastate travel restrictions are to be lifted from 1 June.Across bushfire-affected communities, there's been a mixed response to the prospect of tourists returning after what's been a devastating 12 months. "It's a very individual kind of perspective, but as a region, our economy really does need to have the tourists here otherwise we're just flat, we don't go anywhere."
The state government says lifting restrictions will help small businesses and the tourism industry get moving again.
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