Monday, March 14, 2011

What's the drama all about? - The Coordinator-General’s Imposed Condition 18(k)

18 (k) The construction workforce must not park in local streets. A dedicated and adequate construction workforce off-street parking area must be provided. All construction workforce vehicles must be directed to project construction workforce car parks. To avoid construction workforce car parking in local streets, shuttle transport between construction workforce car parks distant from a construction area must be provided for the duration of the period the construction area is in use.

Above is the Coordinator-General’s Imposed Condition which must be satisfied by BCC and constructed by Transcity. Note the Imposed Condition states – ‘All construction workforce vehicles must be directed to project construction workforce car parks.’

Cr Quirk said on Channel Ten News on 3 March 2011, ‘It’s a free country and in the end people can park wherever they want to park, so if we make it too difficult I fear that they’ll end up parking in those local streets.”

Transcity said on 9 March 2011, that there is no legal way to enforce this condition on the workforce, but as employers they will do everything possible to have the workforce comply.

But the Imposed Conditions states –
‘To avoid construction workforce car parking in local streets, shuttle transport between construction workforce car parks distant from a construction area must be provided for the duration of the period the construction area is in use.’

So the use of shuttle buses is an Imposed Condition to avoid workers parking on the local streets, but BCC wants one of the ANZAC Park sites to avoid the cost of shuttle buses, and will also breach the Imposed Condition. The workers will still need to be shuttle bussed from either site in ANZAC Park as the distance from ANZAC Park is too far for the workers to walk to the worksite. Shuttle buses are being used at the Eastern end of the project where BCC has already taken green space in Victoria Park. Not making any sense? Raise your concerns!


Coordinator-General’s Report Northern Link Road Tunnel released: April 2010 ‘Report evaluating the Environmental Impact Statement’, pursuant to section 35(3) of the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 - APPENDIX 1, Schedule 3 – Imposed Conditions 18 (k) - messing with our lives!

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