Thursday, 25 August 2005
Media Release
Sydney’s First Greens Mayor Wraps up his Term with Attack on RTA Access Ramps
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Randwick City Council’s Green Mayor Murray Matson has convened his last scheduled meeting.
He has used it to call for a convoy of cars to oppose the contentious RTA proposal to construct Access Ramps off Southern Cross Drive onto Gardeners Road.
The issue has turned the public transport loving Mayor against pro ramps enthusiast and state MP for Heffron, Kristina Keneally.
In addition to the convoy, the Council will erect four street banners" and print a thousand posters bearing the slogan "No Ramps – Yes Light Rail".
The Mayor said after the meeting,
"On one side of this dispute is the ALP’s Kristina Keneally promoting induced traffic and rat running through Kensington and Kingsford - and on the other side are the Greens promoting reduced Greenhouse gas emissions and Light Rail."
Anne Gardiner, the Greens candidate for the Maroubra By-election states that she will use her campaign to highlight Labor’s "public transport failures across Sydney".
She elaborated,
"The Greens stand for alternative transport solutions while Labor just lets the RTA continue to throw up motorways that never deliver the promised local traffic improvements. More cars just arrive on peoples door steps"