Are you sick of being consulted yet?

sexynotsmart – the meeting went very well. the main item discussed was a submission for the airport master plan, to consider lightrail and integrated public transport for travellers and workers in the brindabella business park, and possible extension to queanbeyan.

what did you do with your time now macleods daughters has finished?

regards

damien haas

chair – act light rail

There has always been an incredible amount of consultation on. The thing now is that CMD have reinstated a community engagement unit that was allowed to fall over when under DHCS (Katy’s portfolio I believe).

The new people are doing a good job at lifting the profile of what is going on, and have actively engaged with Community Councils and other groups about what we need from the government to improve things.

On the Nicholls Shops parking issue Felix, to Tony Gill’s credit he realised that they hadn’t done enough, and put the plans on hold while they remedied the situation. The 55 people at the meeting at Nicholls last week were heard loud and clear, and some workable (but not cheap) holistic solutions were put forward for resolving the problems. And he has agree to leverage GCC’s communications tools to make sure future communiques get a better airing on this and other transport issues.

Credit also to Alistair Coe for his active pursuit of the issue, as opposed to Mary Porter’s “I brought all this up 4 years ago” (and then apparently forgot to do anything more about it…

Two words: Focus Groups. There’s no point in rushing into a poll of whether or not to have poll if we don’t know whether or not we’re asking the right question in the first place. We’ll need to advertise of course, seeking expressions of interest and have a strategy to make sure that we capture the full range of ethnic, minority and interest groups … but once that’s sorted it should be pretty straight forward.

Pommy bastard said :

Are you sick of being consulted yet?

Should RiotAct run a poll on it?

Or should we just post “poll” or “No Pol” in this thread to decide if we should have a poll or not?

What do you think about the idea of a poll about a poll about the consultations?

Maybe a poll to see if there should be a poll about a poll about the consultations……then surely the majority will rule?

Are you sick of being consulted yet?

Should RiotAct run a poll on it?

Or should we just post “poll” or “No Pol” in this thread to decide if we should have a poll or not?

What do you think about the idea of a poll about a poll about the consultations?

Oops, forgot to add… speaking of consultations, it’s been more than a minute since the ACT Light Rail Meeting. And there’s no post about how tramtastic the benefits to Canberra could be.

Does someone have a phone number? We should check they’re OK.

Thanks for the “heads up” on the Tuggeranong Town Park Stage one. I think I might drop in next week and consult away.

If the plan is to pour concrete where the consultation cardtable is being set up, I’m dead against it. But if it’s replacing the crushed granite memorial space near the what-were-rose-gardens, then please be my guest and “stage away”.

or like Weston West, being consulted by the ACTgov and the NCA who had different agendas

Death by consultation.

Or is it, like sand in your eye, blindness from an absurd amount of meaningless consultation.

Long ago, I was surveyed for my TV watching habits when I didn’t own a TV, wasn’t a question.
There was the ACTION survey that insisted on knowing my closest stop. Why would I ever use it, when it was a 3 minute walk to the Civic interchange? This was before transfer tickets.