Barry Jarrett fears that a proposed inter-modal freight terminal in Moorebank would increase the number of large trucks using the Glenfield causeway.

But Ms Keneally's government has wiped its hands of any responsibility to upgrade the dangerous road.

A spokesman for Transport Minister David Campbell's office said: ``This road is a local government road to the west and a federal government responsibility where it crosses over into the Defence Force land to the east,'' he said.

Campbelltown Council hasn't got enough cash to replace the causeway with a high-level bridge, estimated to cost more than $10 million, and the federal government has offered little more than words.

A letter penned last July by Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support Mike Kelly said the federal government planned to spend $300 million on development of the terminal in Moorebank. ``The requirement to upgrade the supporting road infrastructure, including the causeway, will be considered as part of this development,'' he wrote.

``On the basis of this advice and subsequent confirmation from the Australian Government solicitor's office, defence accepts that it is co-owner of the Cambridge Avenue causeway at Glenfield. However, Defence is satisfied that road infrastructure in the Moorebank area, including the causeway, is sufficient for its needs and therefore has no plan for its upgrade.''

The causeway floods regularly during heavy rain and has been the scene of many vehicle accidents including fatalities.

Mr Jarrett said Ms Keneally would come to the community when she needed votes heading into election but she was not there for local people at other times.

``We all pay our taxes and when we want things to happen we seem to be pushed and shoved or stabbed in the back,'' he said.

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