Good Evening Fellow Residents, Commuters and Petition Supporters
Please keep sharing the online petition - Lets get to 10,000 online Signatures www.tinyurl.com/MoreParkingNow
After viewing the Channel 7 Video News Clip a couple of Times I was fuming after hearing the Comments made by the Minister for Transport Andrew Constance and his suggestion on the Temporary Solution to the Car Parking Crisis at Edmondson Park and Leppington Stations after the promises made by the Premier just Prior to the State Election in March 2019. So I made a video of my own at the Trash and Treasure market.
Leppington People here is the video That I did in February 2019 with a potential solution back in February 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJC6ogj2heQ
This is just one of 3 emails that I have sent to Mr Constance today - the other two I will share in an Update later this week and I will be posting on my facebook page also www.facebook.com/Michael.Independent
YOU CAN EMAIL Andrew Constance ALSO AT OFFICE@CONSTANCE.MINISTER.NSW.GOV.AU
please cc Michael.Independent1@gmail.com
Good Evening Mr Constance
I refer to your comments on CH7 News last Thursday when you
proposed a Temporary Solution to the Car paring Crisis at
Edmondson Park (and Leppington) Stations.
https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSsydney/videos/513478792764033/?t=1
You stated that as a temporary fix you would provide "some asphalt on the ground and line marking to make it safe".
Somewhat of a contemptuous statement and pretty much a Slap in the face for Residents and Commuters in South Western Sydney after the Election Promises that were made by the Premier just before the State Election in March 2019.
At our meeting way back in May 2018 when I presented the Car Parking Crisis Petition you asked me if "I was there to have a whinge about OR Provide a Solution to the Car Parking Crisis"
The solution that I proposed in May 2018 is still available you can read about it on the Link below
But I also have another Solution that you might consider whichmight save a lot of time and that is to use the Trash and Treasure Markets at Prestons which already has Bitumen on the Ground and white lines already painted on it. See link below to view a short video
Prestons Trash and Treasure Markets Video https://youtu.be/0WpB6Nc6Ph8
With Regard to Leppington I also made a suggestion to use the Land owned across the road from Leppington Station back in February 2019 see link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJC6ogj2heQ
I do hope that you will act on this matter quickly as its already been
4 long years that the Car Parking Crisis has been going and its getting worse by the day.
Please feel free to have your staff contact me for further Information
regarding Contacts and to progress the ideas further.
Yours Sincerely
Michael Andjelkovic JP
Community Campaigner for Liverpool
INFORMATION ON THE CAR PARKING CRISIS FROM MARK LATHAM
I asked the transport Minister to provide statistics on the number of Opal card tap-ons in the morning peak between 5.00 a.m. and 9.00 a.m. at Leppington and Edmondson Park stations and then to compare that with the number of car parking spaces that have been provided.
Last month, Monday to Friday, on average there were over 2,000 people tapping on at Leppington train station for their morning commute. There are 850 car spaces at the station. There are people parking up side streets, down in front of old farms and in very dark spots that make it dangerous for women walking back to their car in the evening. It is hopelessly inadequate.
At Edmondson Park it is even worse. There were 1,800 tapping on for an average working day last month with only 400 car parking spaces. People are up on the footpath like sardines and attracting parking tickets. It is chaos. These are areas where the Government knew there would be rapid population growth. These are train stations and parking areas opened in the 2015 State election campaign and the Government knew these areas would be subject to vast population growth.
The worst is yet to come. The parking at the moment is hopelessly inadequate, but in a couple of years demand will double because of the population growth. The population in the corridor from Austral to Badgerys Creek and down to Oran Park and Harrington Grove is expected by this Government to be 1.3 million people. That is west of the M7 and south of Elizabeth Drive with two train stations and 1,200 parking spots for commuters. There are 1.3 million people on the planning books, but only 1,200 commuter car parking spaces. Do not give us baloney about record infrastructure spends. In the practical life of people trying to get to work and trying to get around in the morning, the situation is chaotic and dangerous.
In the practical life of the average citizen and voter this is a huge issue. The Government has to do two things: Fulfil that promise to reduce the overseas migration intake into New South Wales to take the congestion pressure off outer western Sydney in particular; and start to allocate these funds where the burning need is evident—that is, Leppington and Edmondson Park stations.
We the Residents and Commuters of South Western Sydney are NOT second class citizens and deserve better treatment than this.
Premier Berejiklian made the Election promises to build a multi Level car Park at Edmondson Park and the provide More Parking at Leppington so its not too much to ask that the election promises be fulfilled. After all she set the expectation and time frame.
The Car Parking Crisis campaign will continue - The Leppington Petition will be Presented to parliament by Mark Latham on the 15th October 2019 and I also have a meeting booked with him that morning.
Please keep sharing the Petition, the Updates and also my posts from www.facebook.com/Michael.Independent
If you can also like and comment on the Ch7 Post and any of my posts.
Keep a look out for more Updates I still have a bit of catching up to do over the next week or so.
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Together everyone achieves more (TEAM) your voices will help us get heard.
Your Sincerely
Michael Andjekovic JP
Community Campaigner for Liverpool
Independent Candidate for Liverpool