Page 2942 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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It goes on to say:
Caroline this could be the best decision for the Tuggeranong Residents to date and they do deserve this decision for change! To put forward “consider” would not assist the residents at all, so I do so hope that you would assist us all at this time and vote today to have the buses removed from the area of Anketell Street! The TCC have put this forward some years as we have constant requests for this to be done, it is a major issue we have realised for the people of Tuggeranong!
Please Caroline, can we count on you to support us all as we today have this raised in the Assembly by Nicole Lawder, Please support this motion by Nicole Lawder and I and so many people will always remember today as a day of change for the Town Centre of Tuggeranong. This so one wonderful gesture you can also make for Tuggeranong before you leave the Assembly!
But, no. This is a heartfelt plea, a sincere appeal for support for a commonsense motion here in the Assembly.
I am not expecting buses to stop running today. I think we could all agree that we could wait a couple of weeks or months for some upgrade work, some roadworks to take place, but not on the never-never forever. We have not got a decision today. All we have in this amended motion is “consider”. “We’ll consider. We’ll think about it some more.” That is what we have got today.
It must be heartbreaking for people in Tuggeranong to have people stand up in front of them at meetings and say, “Yes, I agree. I support what you are saying. Yes, absolutely,” and then vote against it on the floor of the Assembly. What a betrayal of their trust. I wonder whether Ms Le Couteur will be able to show her face at the Tuggeranong Community Council again. I had a vain hope that perhaps in her last 15 months or so in the Assembly, since Ms Le Couteur had decided not to re-stand, she would actually stand up for her principles, that she would make a stand. I have been disappointed today.
What we are seeing here is the Greens supporting the amendment from Mr Steel which says they will “consider”. They will keep considering as they have for the past six or more months while Anketell Street has been closed and for the past nearly two years since the petition. They will keep considering for some undisclosed, unspecified period into the future. But this is not a hypothetical question. This is a very real issue for the people of Tuggeranong: the amenity of their restaurant strip, the viability of their businesses and the safety of residents using that area. The minister himself has admitted that there are very real safety concerns.
But, no, we still do not actually have a decision. Let us not forget that. I am a bit surprised. I am pretty disappointed. In fact I am bitterly disappointed that we could not have let this quite commonsense motion through the Assembly today. It leaves Tuggeranong behind once again. It leaves Tuggeranong residents feeling neglected once again. It leaves Tuggeranong people thinking that this government does not care about them, once again.
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