From: Guy Stanford [mailto:sstanfor@...]
Sent: Friday, 3 November 2006 11:07 AM
To: MCC-Delegates
Subject: Re: [Mcc-delegates] No more NT blasts!


The staggering influence of Harold Scruby

I am gobsmacked that the Royal College of Surgeons aligned themselves with
him.
I'm afraid their credibility just fell about ten notches

The Pedestrian Council is about three people, they have no real constituency
at all, just a typewriter and speech peppered with the terms "they
should.....", "you should...".

With plenty of time on your hands and a fundamentalist belief that you have
the right to tell people how to lead their lives, it is truly amazing what
can be changed.

Mind you, the bloke has done some good by raising certain issues, but to see
official bodies with a proper constituency aligning themselves with an
organisation that is basically all feathers and no substance surprises me
for their weak mindedness on this issue. I reckon I'd trust them on the
operating table, but not in politics, that was really silly.

The NT has a huge problem of people falling out of the back of utes when
drunk, on dirt roads at low speeds.

So, please tell me an appropriate social strategy.
I don't think a speed limit is the solution here

BUT, a speed limit solution plays upon the guilt factor, the emotional lever
being leaned upon by those with a pompous high moral ground approach that
makes the assumption that they are "more moral" than the rest of the
population in the first place and hence fitted for passing judgement upon
their fellow man. I reckon the Mullahs of Tehran would be easier to deal
with.

Or, its the work of a bully who enjoys the power of pushing people around
for their own agenda with no logic or reason or even effort to come to grips
with the real problem, justified from a narrow upper class perspective that
simply cannot believe that other people may make different choices to
themselves as a result of their own circumstances. It's real easy when
you're from a privileged background, very wealthy and have lots of options
to choose from that others may never have. Who has the right to pass
judgement upon their fellow man?

Oh yes. this is the politics of privilge, paternalistically giving
instruction to the lower classes.

The Pedestrian Council has been given privilege by the old school tie
associations with our State govt. This is apparently how State Labour
manages itself, distributing privilege amongst its mates. Even Paul Keating,
a Labour Federal ex-prime minister has a few problems with the developer
mates funding in NSW and the privilege. Now what is Frank Sartor up to? He
has the box-seat of absolute power over building development in NSW and as
Keating notes, facing a "wall of money". The opportunity for corruption is
massive. I just hope the controls and transparency are clear.

Where we held Ride To Work Day is surrounded by buildings with no resident
parking on site, so the residents, who bought cheaply asa result, put
pressure on the public space and we lose parking. These buildings were
approved by Sartor when he was at the City of Sydney, leaving a legacy of
bickering over public space while the private land developer gets to keep
their costs down and offer bargains to be snapped up.

All we want is good quality, equitable administration.

I will vote for whoever can deliver that.

So far, as a rider, I fail to see how this has been demonstrated, except for
the odd biscuit thrown from the passing window of opportunity.

Scully the clown, who presided over ten years of stagnation in transport
policy and administration, finally got around to shooting himself in the
foot after misleading transport for over ten years and then misleading
Parliament. So what's changed? Not bloody much. We still haven't had our
toll rate fixed, we still get charged four times the correct rate,
subsidising trucks to use the toll roads while bicycles go free, even though
they have their own bicycle paths alongside, that our toll is paying for.
Aren't we great and generous as riders? Subsidising others while we pay four
times for tolls, pay four times for parking and can't even get a reasonable
share of the road safety budget, while getting blamed for a poor crash
record. That's bullying. It's inequitable. It's the politics of privilege,
that opinions of a few say motorcycles are a pest. That bicycles can get
more privileges for lane splitting while motorcycles are denied and
repressed by inappropriate road rules. The politics of privilge starts by
social exclusion and blame.

Gawd ! Where's my medicine? gizzit 'ere

OK, back to working with the system to effect change.
Patience is running very thin. I'm not sure how much more we have to offer.





-----Original Message-----
From: mcc-delegates-bounces@...
[mailto:mcc-delegates-bounces@...]On Behalf Of David Scott
Sent: Friday, 3 November 2006 9:13 AM
To: MCC-Delegates
Subject: [Mcc-delegates] No more NT blasts!



Looks like the "unlimited cruise" in the NT will be no more:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=155055
<http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=155055>

Hopefully this is just the typical poor media reporting of the facts ... or
the reporter just never thought to ask why, in response to a report that
finds 48% of fatal crashes are alcohol related, the answer is to lower the
speed limit?

Dr. Scotch
DSMRA



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