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August 4th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I love the council garbage pick up service!
August 5th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Get the tram line extended to Dulwich Hill. Get 2nd airport and share burden of air traffic with low density outer suburbs.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
The traffic in the area is shocking. My street is Cardigan Street and we constantly have trucks, buses and commercial vehicles using the street as a shortcut to Newton, Petersham and beyond. The traffic often travels at high speed and speed humps in the street are completely ineffective - often hoons go over these at high speed for a cheap thrill. Very dangerous for all the young children in the street. It’s always full of parked cars due to people associated with businesses in Bridge Road taking advantage of the unrestricted parking and nobody takes any notice of the no right turn restriction from Cardigan Street into Salisbury Road. My previous complaints to Council have brought the response that traffic volume is “within limits”. Not from my observation it isn’t.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Currently, along my end of New Canterbury Rd, (around the Livingstone Hotel), there is increasing amounts of places that will be “developed”. Opposite the Turkish pizza place on West Street, it looks as though there is eventually going to be some development of units there. There is NO street parking available a lot of the time as is and these developers are proposing multi unit developments with minimal car parking. It has to stop - I don;t think Petersham can support all these units without proper parking facilities. One per unit is not sufficient as often there are 2 car households.
Secondly - graffiti is appalling. The mural in tunnel under the railway was lovely but its been completely covered by graffiti and the other side of the beautiful old railway station is the same way. Its that old broken windows theory- you have to fix it straight away to beat them at their destructive games.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
Jack Shanahan park is in need of an upgrade. The basketball court always has glass on it and has a number of depressions. More outdoor sporting areas are needed.
Improvements to cycleways are also important. Safe routes to the city are needed to get people out of their cars.