Storm restoration work, which began in mid-January, will involve rebuilding a washed out section of the road by constructing a retaining wall and laying down a new and larger culvert pipe to drain water.

Council will also remove, where possible, a large rock shelf jutting into the road in another section and undertake some gravel re-sheeting.

While residents in the Tinderry community are happy work is being done to repair the road they say the mountain section continues to deteriorate.

“The community’s major issue and concern - the dangerous and unsafe road surface on the steep mountain section - has still not been addressed by council,” secretary of the Tinderry Mountain Community Group Hans Saxinger said.

“The condition of the road has deteriorated further since the Cooma-Monaro Express visited in October and has been referred to as “a goat track” by our local State MP and other visitors to the area.”

Mr Saxinger said the community was glad to see council undertaking work on the road but they continued to face frustrations.

“While we are pleased that council is repairing the collapsed road shoulder, we are frustrated that our vehicles are sustaining unreasonable and excessive damage on the road, and very disappointed that neither the council nor state government has taken any action to repair the road surface on the mountain section and make Tinderry Road safe for all road users and local children going to school,” he said.

A number of roads across the shire have been affected by storms over recent months.

Council’s director of engineering services David Byrne said the storms had caused significant delays to council’s planned work in recent months, especially in the northern part of the shire.