Thursday 15 March 2012

Munro Street Crossing Petition - Where to from here?

Dear Munro Street Petition Signers,

Wow - what a fantastic response to our first petition signing session yesterday, thank you all for your support!!

We got about 150 signatures in just under 3 hours.  We heard a universal message that the Munro Street/ Railway Place/ Upfield Bike Path crossing is in urgent need of a safety upgrade.


So where to from here?

Your signatures will be attached to letters for:

  • Hon. Terry Mulder, the Minister for Roads,
  • Hon. Christine Campbell, Member for Pascoe Vale,
  • Mr Gary Liddle, Chief Executive VicRoads. 
The letters request support for urgent safety improvements at the crossing, and will be published on this website over the next few weeks.  See the Munro Street crossing hotspot page for a similar letter we recently sent to Council.

We will map out an action plan based on their responses.


Joining Walk On Moreland 


I invite & encourage all of you to join Walk On Moreland.  This will enable us to organise more ambitious future actions and diversify our approach, and means over time we can broaden our outlook beyond a single location.

Several people indicated that they have previously lobbied for action at Munro Street.  I would be especially interested to hear from you so we can build on your previous work.  Ditto for people who indicated they're linked in with other likeminded groups.

You can join by simply re-submitting your email address via our website or by 'Liking' us on Facebook or Google.


Next Event

The next event will be a drop-in, information sharing, and signature gathering session at the cnr Munro Street/ Railway Place (ie same place) in four weeks time, Wednesday 11th April.  If you'd like to be involved in planning, join Walk On Moreland and we'll be in touch.


So thanks again and 'Let's Keep Walking (& Riding)'!  - NW

PS Please also note that several email addresses were hard to decipher, so apologies if you didn't receive this note by email - keep sending people to the website...


2 comments:

  1. Hey there,

    We'd love to support your efforts and would be happy to drop in for a chat if you fancy!

    cheers,
    Charmaine at Victoria Walks (9667 1326).

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    1. Thanks for your support Charmaine.
      We will definitely be in touch to see how we can work together to move this one along.
      It would be great to see what we can do in the leadup to our next event on 11 April. Cheers - NW.

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