On Tuesday 4th Nov community members met and made following agreements:
Agreements - from community meeting
November 6th, 2008 — community organising
Your thoughts for this year please
April 18th, 2008 — community organising
Next community gathering is at Trish and Stu’s.
Tuesday 29th, 7.30 pm.
131 Waterworks Rd.
So far this year we have been sidetracked by the traffic calming issue. It’s time to get onto other sustainability projects.
- We can letterbox the whole Waterworks Community, inviting them to join our activities.
- We also have the opportunity to conduct an invaluable research project - on barriers that people find inhibit them from becoming more sustainable.
But these are just two ideas. If you have things you would like us to discuss, just go immediately below this and click where it says comments.
Any feedback, good ideas, good references……..etc are much appreciated.
Chris H
Those speed humps
March 25th, 2008 — road safety
Hobart council organised a meeting last week to discuss the traffic calming measures planned for Waterworks Rd. About a dozen Ridgeway residents and two members of the Waterworks Valley community (Steph and Trish) attended; Ald Ron Christie chaired the meeting and Deputy Mayor Eva Ruzika and Ald Elise Archer were also present, as well as Leon Parker, from Hobart Council’s Road Services.
We attended mainly to reassure Ridgeway residents that Waterworks Community was not trying to create and ‘us-vs-them’ situation, and that we weren’t blaming the problems we experience with the road on Ridgeway residents. We also wanted to make it clear that our request for traffic calming was driven by concern for the safety of all road users including, of course, those from Ridgeway. Continue reading →
Cross the Road — Take your Life in your Hands
February 22nd, 2008 — road safety
Ours is a winding road, often steep, with only one formed footpath for much of its length.
The parents and children of the Walking Bus travel down the southern side on this footpath, but of course the families involved are from both sides of the road and children and adults cross it to play or visit, too.
Adults and older children cycle, walk, walk their dogs and run here; wallabies and other native animals cross at night or early in the morning. All too often they don’t make it safely to the other side, as Waterworks Road attracts speedsters.