On Wednesday 11 April, I delivered a petition to Town Hall asking Councillors NOT to endorse Option A in the Inkerman Street bicycle infrastructure proposal. 

 

Thanks to one of our fabulous street artisans (Phil) at OrtBindery, our 1,295 signatures were presented in style - in a beautiful, bespoke, gold-embossed box!  

 

This obviously made quite an impression, because when two residents rushed in to add some late pages into the mix (which Council kindly allowed), the folks behind the counter knew all about it, making particular reference to "THAT BLACK BOX"!  Those late entries pushed the total number of signatures to 1,306 – a brilliant effort! And there are still a bunch of pages out there somewhere!

 

I would like to thank each and every one of our Collective for getting behind this, and for asking your friends, families, visitors, clients and employees to get on board. It's a hard slog collecting wet signatures – so much harder than an online petition, so this is a testament to all those who showed up at our front door to sign or collected signatures from neighbours all over the catchment. This is a real grass roots petition. The signatures were collected by people from on and around the street, and the signatories are all people who will be directly impacted in some way by the proposed changes. 

 

Council's original "Have Your Say Survey" received feedback from 1,742 respondents, so we received 75% of that number in ink.  And I understand there are still more petitions to be submitted!  By the time Council receive those, I believe we will be very close to the total number of original survey respondents. 

 

As you all know, it's not over yet.  We can only hope Council 'hear' our collective voices from inside that little black box!

 

Stronger together.