Capital Metro consultation heads to Tuggeranong

Masquara said :

Question for ACT residents: would you rather the government spent your gazillion reconstructing up to 2,000 blue-asbestos-ridden dwellings for Canberrans who have.

….. made a bad household consumer choice

I once bought a Hyundai excel … it was a bad consumer choice, I never expected ACT Ratepayers to compensate me for my bad consumer choice

Masquara said :

Question for ACT residents: would you rather the government spent your gazillion reconstructing up to 2,000 blue-asbestos-ridden dwellings for Canberrans who have had to abandon them, or build the light rail? Housing construction would, I would think, be a major stimulus for the economy and create more jobs than light rail. Check “Background Briefing” (Radio National) on the ABC website for the chilling extent of the problem.

Simply ridiculous!

Masquara said :

Question for ACT residents: would you rather the government spent your gazillion reconstructing up to 2,000 blue-asbestos-ridden dwellings for Canberrans who have had to abandon them, or build the light rail? Housing construction would, I would think, be a major stimulus for the economy and create more jobs than light rail. Check “Background Briefing” (Radio National) on the ABC website for the chilling extent of the problem.

Why does it have to be either?

Can act afford to do big projects at the moment that don’t lead to permanent jobs?

DHS is looking at cutting 20,000. It’s about time we diversified our economy isn’t it?

Question for ACT residents: would you rather the government spent your gazillion reconstructing up to 2,000 blue-asbestos-ridden dwellings for Canberrans who have had to abandon them, or build the light rail? Housing construction would, I would think, be a major stimulus for the economy and create more jobs than light rail. Check “Background Briefing” (Radio National) on the ABC website for the chilling extent of the problem.

Masquara said :

magiccar9 said :

John Moulis said :

What part of “no” do they not understand?

The ‘N’ bit, followed by the ‘O’ bit.

I’d like to see them release all of the comments on a website, and allow everyone to submit more feedback. Let us really see what the rest of the public think…

ACT Labor seem to have added to “housing entrepreneur friends”, “transport infrastructure developer friends”. There has to be more to this entrenched determination to get this billion dollars into entrepreneurs’ pockets than a couple of the local pollies suddenly being overcome with “vision”.

Hmmmm………Never confuse rank stupidity for rat cunning.

I think this describes the ACT Gov’t in relation to the Light Rail project – and unfortunately for all ACT Ratepayers and residents, also applies in relation to far too many other ACT Gov’t decisions I’m afraid.

Living in the ACT is now like living in Noddy Land but governed by the Keystone Cops.

magiccar9 said :

John Moulis said :

What part of “no” do they not understand?

The ‘N’ bit, followed by the ‘O’ bit.

I’d like to see them release all of the comments on a website, and allow everyone to submit more feedback. Let us really see what the rest of the public think…

ACT Labor seem to have added to “housing entrepreneur friends”, “transport infrastructure developer friends”. There has to be more to this entrenched determination to get this billion dollars into entrepreneurs’ pockets than a couple of the local pollies suddenly being overcome with “vision”.

John Moulis said :

What part of “no” do they not understand?

The ‘N’ bit, followed by the ‘O’ bit.

I’d like to see them release all of the comments on a website, and allow everyone to submit more feedback. Let us really see what the rest of the public think…

What part of “no” do they not understand?

miz said :

It’s not consultation, it’s sales and marketing.

Yeah – just another opportunity for the ACT Gov’t to “spin” the issue. If they really cared about feedback and economic management and good decision making, it would already have been shelved – or postponed.

As a staff member undertaking this sort of public consultation, you would have to be zealously committed to Light Rail – or just doing whats necessary to earn a buck ?

This “consultation” sounds more like just something they need to go through to tick a box on their project plan. The decision has probably already been made to go ahead anyway.

Pretty poor interpretation of “consultation” if they were there only during working hours.

They would no doubt have received even more “feedback” if it was held on a Saturday morning, when people could actually get there, instead of being at work.