Almost a month after a Jerrabomberra motorcyclist died on Oallen Ford Road, Palerang Council has rejected suggestions it hasn't seized available road funding.
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James Hughes died after losing control on the new bridge, west of Nerriga, while riding from Canberra to the South Coast on October 6. His partner blamed the death on the failure to repair a pothole.
Palerang works manager Gordon Cunningham said every time Mayor Pete Harrison met with state and federal MPs for the area, he lobbied for more money for roads.
"I could rattle off any number of areas in our council that have done well out of it," he said.
"We look at it on a shire-wide basis but other people may view just the roads that affect them."
Mr Cunningham said Oallen Ford Road was fine for the time in which it was built, but with the extension of Main Road 92 to Nerriga, it had become much busier and no thought had been put into its extension. This impacts the area because Oallen Ford Road is already being treated as the logical extension.
"It won't be a heavy-vehicle thoroughfare until money is thrown at it," he said.
"One year ago Oallen Ford was plugging away nicely as a sealed road but now it is a pseudo main road."
Grading on Nerriga Road was costing an extra $50,000 annually and now with Oallen Ford Road, it was a "double bunger".
He criticised the state government for its "deafening silence" on extending MR92 beyond Nerriga.
Goulburn Mulwaree general manager Warwick Bennett said the council would always like more money for roads.
The $3 million Oallen Ford Bridge over the Shoalhaven River was opened on September 11.
Since then, it has emerged a Canberra couple and a Ulladulla man were rattled by a near-miss from what they believe was the same pothole in either the days or weeks leading up to the accident.
Mr Brown drives the road weekly to his tradesman's job in Canberra and said the road was "breaking up".
"The corner [leading up to it] is a hairpin that doubles back. As a bike rider and a car driver, it's easy to overshoot," he said.
"You really have to be on your metal. Every time you go there there's more deterioration."
Oallen Ford Road is a joint responsibility of Goulburn Mulwaree and Palerang council, but the bridge comes under Goulburn Mulwaree's control.
Goulburn Mulwaree general manager Warwick Bennett said since the crash, the council had further extended the hotmix on the structure's approaches.
