Dear Supporters, it is often hard to know what to believe in public life lately. On the bike ramp issue, we’ve noticed a lack of community engagement and an offer of mediation, made back in April, has not happened. We’ve been shut out. The lessons from the Rozelle interchange Report have not been learned. Conclusion: departmental consultation = meaningless and hypocritical lip service.  

How to reason with our Premier? Last November, Premier Chris Minns delivered the Bradfield Oration, where he praised “… change that will add to, not subtract from the city”. Mr Minns wants change that makes people fall in love with their city all over again, concluding with the wish to living up to “the ultimate change maker in Sydney’s history, Dr J Bradfield.” Admirable sentiments.

How sad then that the Minns government seems poised to roll the bulldozers through Bradfield Park at Milsons Point. This park was envisaged and laid out by that same Dr Bradfield spoken of so warmly in his “Oration”.

A linear bike ramp SUBTRACTS from the city – the opposite of what Minns says he wants. It will trash the Bradfield vision, again, the opposite of what Minns wants.

The Community Cycle Ramp remains the only option that ADDS to the city, delivering rideable step free access to the harbour bridge, (to Australian standards), without destroying the heritage features of the locality and in a safer manner. A Win/Win outcome.

We implore Premier Minns to direct his parliamentary colleagues and TfNSW to deliver the only Win/Win outcome: the Community Cycle Ramp. Doing so aligns with his Bradfield Oration. Failure to take control will speak poorly to his personal legacy in office as Premier.

Keep supporting the petition:  https://chng.it/BQCzQpVkvQ

Still hoping, Ian (image of western forecourt at Milsons Point Station with Dr Bradfield, possibly)