NCA wants your feedback on parking in the zone, and drops a steamer on the internet.

I think the advertising looks cool but are they asking where they should install play equipment for my kids?

Free parking!! This consultation process is only in place so when they make bad decisions they can blame us!!!

Lets do a survey of public servants who get free parking:

free: those in the parliamentary triangle. And at Brindy park

not free: all the rest who work in departments that arent in the parliamentary triangle (Civic, Belco, Woden) (actually, does Centrelink have free parking?)

Anyway, a good proportion of public servants already pay for parking and get no compensation for it. And the rest of us subsidise it (even if only through the loss of revenue to ACTION)

Can we have 3 for free please?

If it were just plain text would you interpret that as an indication that feedback would be taken seriously? Not sure I’d make that same logical connection.

Perused, used and bemused.

Looks like the NCA (which should stop wasting taxpayers’ money though existing) did not get word that Rudd is gone and that there are not supposed to be any pointless feel good consultation/blog/poll happenings anymore.

I also like how anyone can post anything and it immediately goes straight online on a government website with no moderation at all. Not even The-Riotact is that dumb.

I don’t understand the sudden consultation here. Did every other paid parking area in Canberra go through a consultation process? Just make it paid parking already and create a system of reserved parking for our national institutions. Don’t really care if a few public service staff cry about it. I’ve probably missed something here or is it really that simple a problem?

I am frightened of Cyclops Star. 🙁

The poll asking ‘Would increased frequency of bus services to Barton, Russell and the Parliamentary Zone (Parkes) make you less likely to drive a car to these areas?’ is also worth doing – once you make your choice you’re shown the current results which are currently ‘yes’ – 32% and ‘no’ – 28%. The other 40% of results are from a survey with only two options seem to have gone missing… This is all yet another good reason to get rid of the NCA.

Why is it still “Beta”? Does this mean that it is going to get better, or that the work experience kid who put it together is back at school now?

Consultation, consultation, consultation…. You can’t convince me it’s anything more than a psychological operation designed to bamboozle anyone that actually wants to comment on anything the combined ineptitude of the ACT Government and National Capital Authority deems worthy of inflicting on the subservient drones of Canberra.

TVStar said :

How about consultation alone these lines:

You going to get hit for $2,000 per year to park your car. By the way, your SES officer manager (with their salary sacrificed car) probably won’t get hit.

How much do you like that?

+1

I worked somewhere once with chronic parking shortages. The managers at EL2 and above met to discuss and their solution was to allocate reserved parking spaces for themselves. Ordinary staff had to park sprawled all over the place. The public complained then it was made no parking outside with the nearest parking lot about 1KM away.

Senior managers with the power to address parking problems simply don’t care because they have cushy reserved parking. No wonder the parking facilities are usually poor for ordinary workers in areas like the Parliamentary triangle and Barton.