Newsletter 51 – Broken Promises and Fading Dreams

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On December 12, 2022
  • waverton bowling club
Dealing with the State Government – experiences that remind me of Peter Finch (the newsreader) in the (1976) film, Network Just like Peter Finch “I’m as mad as hell ..” .. but for me the cause is being ignored by the State Government; watching it plunder our open green space – even worse, watching our […]
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Newsletter 41 –  The State Government v Open Green Space

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On March 23, 2022
At present, cyclists wanting to cross the Harbour Bridge, like pedestrians, have to go up/down 55 steps. Transport for NSW advocates building a linear ramp for cyclists between the bridge and Alfred Street – right through the middle of Bradfield Park. What’s infuriating is Transport for NSW steadfastly refuses to consider the alternative concept plan […]
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Newsletter 36 –  Precincts

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On September 28, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, harbour bridge cycleway
Precincts – an exercise in participatory democracy. There’s – no better way to make Councillors aware of voters’ concerns Back in 1972 North Sydney Council first put in place the mechanism to foster participatory democracy. we called it the Community Precinct System; divided North Sydney’s local government area in to (now) 26 precincts (not all […]
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Newsletter 35 –  Bradfield Park

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On September 26, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, harbour bridge cycleway
Bradfield Park and a cycleway – a questionable process What do you do: When the Government announces a project that appears to violate the Auditor General’s guidelines  intended to ensure infrastructure projects: are actually needed; represent value for money; based on sound assumptions; with improved safety for all? When the project fails to meet its […]
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