'No social distancing up here': Blue Mountains mayor calls for help as NSW residents hit the road

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.

The Mayor is 100% correct.

is it any wonder we want to keep them down there where they belong....

It feels like there has been little change in the non tourist areas and townships. The locals around mine are as cautious and careful as they have been for the last 3 -4 weeks.

SBS And that was SO difficult to predict! Not. Greedy Gladys. nswpol stayhome COVIDー19

JonesHowdareyou Why would Gladys target the Blue Mountains for secondary outbreaks of the virus Disgraceful

Wooww and they have so much space for social distancing

As a Leura resident I can agree, social distancing is TOTALLY absent has been since BEFORE the visiting was permitted, people have no respect for our community, which has much higher average age group, more vulnerable

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