ABC Online have this piece on the ACT Govt trying to justify the $3.5 mil they’ve raised from putting in pay parking at Belconnen and Tuggeranong. Supposedly the figure is correct and right on track for their predictions along with seeing a 2.5% increase in public transport usage.
The ACT Libs concerns are that the money raised will go into General Revenue coffers rather than specific usage coffers, and for once Vicki Dunne actually makes a coherent statement saying, ”People are going to the Belconnen Mall to shop and they’re not going to do that on public transport, they’re going to go there, buy their groceries, put them in their car and go home”, to which I totally agree with her, then again neither of us actually work in the Belconnen or Tuggeranong area.