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Media Release
No Parking Meters Pa...June 23, 2010<br /><br />Media Release<br /><br />No Parking Meters Party Bike Rego Plan Goes Down in Flames at Randwick City<br />Council<br />****************************************************************************<br />*****<br /><br />The No Parking Meters Party has fallen at the first hurdle in its campaign<br />to persuade the local councils of NSW that they should impose a $50<br />registration fee on bike riders.<br /><br />Last night Randwick City Council voted 13 to 2 not to take the idea to the<br />next Local Government and Shires Association meeting.<br /><br />Greens Councillor Murray Matson who opposed it said after the meeting.<br /><br />"Councillors from the Greens, Labor and the Liberals got up one after the<br />other and said it was a bad idea that would be counter productive in<br />improving road congestion.<br /><br />Most of us also thought that it would be a nightmare for the RTA to<br />implement and an economically onerous task for Councils and the police to<br />enforce."<br /><br />Cr Matson said that the Greens considered that compulsory registration fees<br />would discourage individual members of society who want to practice positive<br />environmental practices in their own life styles.<br /><br />He elaborated,<br /><br />"Councils like Randwick can not on one hand talk up the need for positive<br />ESD action and on the other hand call for the economic punishing of<br />alternative transport users. Council did the right thing and killed off this<br />outdated idea before it picked up any momentum at the local Council level."<br /><br />The only other Councillor who voted for Councillor Charles Matthew's (No<br />Parking Meters Party) defeated motion was independent Councillor Anthony<br />Andrews who represents the Maroubra area of Randwick City Council.<br /><br />Councillor Matson criticized Councillor Andrews for ".letting down the bike<br />riders of his electorate".<br /><br />He said,<br /><br />"I can not understand how a Councillor who represents an urban electorate<br />could vote for an anti bike initiative. The bike riding commuters of<br />Maroubra must surely feel that Councillor Andrews is out of touch with his<br />constituency."<br /><br />CONTACT: Greens Councillor Murray Matson 0409-984-587Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com