What the community is saying...
This page shares comments that are representative of the Cammeray Community's views and experience of the WHT and WFU Project.
This month we are focusing on Parking issues.
If you're a member of the Cammeray Community, and you'd like to add your voice to the discussion - either on parking or any other topic related to the project, we'd love you to 'Have your say'.
Scroll down or click on a topic in the list below to read more about what the community are saying about....
Or read more about the background to the parking issues.
1. Cammeray: The CGC Site's unofficial parking lot
The streets start to fill between 6am and 7am, and by the time they're done, it can be pretty hard to find a spare parking space, in what used to be streets that were relatively easy to park in.
It's pretty clear that the Project hasn't kept its commitment to providing construction workers who want to drive with parking. Instead the Cammeray Golf Course has become the Project's unofficial parking lot. Here's a sample of the community's voices on this below:
I was talking to my neighbours. They're elderly, and are too scared to go out in case they can't get a park close to their house when they get back. They can't walk very far.
Matt
Finding a park on Echo, Warringa or around Green Park is almost impossible some days.
Mel
Most mornings and afternoons, Warringa Road resembles a Beach carpark. Between the clothes changes, and construction sand from their boots left on the road.
Sandy
2. Cammeray: Off-site parking for other Project sites
The presence of Shuttle Buses picking up and dropping workers from their cars - and not the Construction Site - tells us that the Project Teams are not just using Cammeray's backstreets as an unofficial parking lot for the Cammeray Golf Course site - but also for other sites outside Cammeray.
Official company shuttle buses start picking workers up from their cars at around 6am - and then they drop them back at their cars in the evening. If parking on-street were not sanctioned by these companies, why are they supporting workers in doing this - by literally transporting them to and from their cars?
Workers tell us that there is no company provided parking available for them and that they have literally been instructed to park on our streets. And you have to ask: "Why would workers park on our streets if the Projects were providing the on-site parking their Parking Stratgies said they would?"
Here's an overview the Cammeray Community's experience of this:
Workers get picked up and dropped off by a van in Morden street. Residents have been struggling to park since it started.
Trent
My Hubby was struggling to get parking and he noticed a van pull up and workers jump out and get in their cars.
Nicole
The mini bus shuttle service is often supplemented by trucks being used to also shuttle workers to and from their cars in the street.
Sandy
3. Construction vehicles blocking our streets
Despite claims that work sites will accomodate construction vehicles - this is far from our experience as the images below (taken in August and September) and quotes below show:
We are in Bellevue Street...The street is full of Downer trucks coming and going.
Jennifer
You can't be sure you're going to make it through the streets you drive down - trucks are always there.
Kathy
And outside my house at 6.50am. This [truck] has been parked on the road for the last 3 mornings at least.
Tamsin
4. How this is impacting the Cammeray Community
There are a range of ways that the Project Teams' blatant disregard of the Minister's Conditions are impacting the community. Here's just some of them:
1. Safety concerns
CONCERN FOR THE SAFETY OF
OUR KIDS
“I am seeing the most ridiculous and dangerous parks. So many children walk our streets and parking across intersections and dangerously is not on..”
Sally
CONCERN FOR OUR SAFETY WHEN DRIVING AROUND OUR STREETS
"Visibility when pulling out of Bells Ave onto Amherst also terrible at the moment with cars and trucks jammed in and crossing driveways in some cases.parking across intersections and dangerously is not on"
Sandy
CONCERN FOR THE SAFETYOF
THE ELDERLY
"My neighbours are elderly and can't walk far. They'r escared to go out during the week - as if they come back and can't get a park, that's a real problem for them."
Kathy
B. Our streets have become toilets, change rooms and even bedrooms
TOILETS
“I witnessed a worker urinating on the street next to his parked truck, outside my house.”
Bernadette
CHANGE ROOMS
"Most mornings and afternoons our road resembles a beach carpark between the clothes changes and construction sand from their boots left on the road. We regularly clean up the rubbish they leave on the curb and in the gutter. "
Sandy
BEDROOMS
"I've seen many workers sleeping in their cars on my streets over the last few months. It's concerning. "
Micky
C. We're already enduring a lot. This just adds to the pain.
ITS' THE LAST STRAW ON
A VERY BIG PILE
“We're already being asked to endure a lot. Round the clock noise. Thumping. Vibrations. Massively increased dust and other pollutants in the air. And now we have to park blocks away from where we live.”
Bella
IT'S NON-STOP
"I know it's got to be done....but its' just everywhere, non stop. If it's not parking it's something else. We've been screwed every which way "
Nicole
THEY EVEN KNOCK OVER
OUR GARBAGE BINS
"I live on Amherst Street and we have had problems with workers parking over driveways and most recently knocking over garbage bins.."