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Little parks

Posted in A Walk in the Park, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , on 17 April, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Melbourne has been hosting this week the international Healthy Parks, Healthy People congress, and Alan Saunders on Radio National spoke to two of the keynote speakers this morning. Having people enjoy public parks, and the effect it has on neighbourhood vitality and personal wellbeing, is a cause close to my heart.  Last year I established [...]

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“Our magic hour”

Posted in A Walk in the Park, Art and exhibitions, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , , , , on 10 February, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I recently had the following article published in a walking magazine. ***** “Our magic hour.”  That’s what the sign says.  “Whose magic hour?” I sometimes think as I walk past on the other side of the river.  Or, “Really? This is my magic hour?” “Our magic hour” is the rainbow artwork perched on top of [...]

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At last, a letter

Posted in A Walk in the Park, tagged , , , , , , on 1 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Finally, I received a response to my submission to Stonnington Council requesting pedestrian crossings at six locations around Toorak.  It only took two letters, a newspaper article, a public rally and a petition with over 30 names. I think the letter says that four of the locations will be considered for pedestrian crossings; I’m not [...]

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Dreams of an FOI-powered world

Posted in A Walk in the Park, tagged , , , on 22 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »

As part of  the community project, A Walk in the Park, I put in a Freedom of Information (FOI) application on pedestrian accident statistics. What a brilliant thing is this FOI!  Just taking the application to the Council was a revelation.  The receptionist snapped to attention as if she were in the army and I were someone who could have [...]

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“Bucks” and my mate, Tony

Posted in A Walk in the Park, tagged , , , on 29 March, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Had a couple of breakthroughs in the community project, A Walk in the Park, that I launched a little while ago.  I got to walk around the area of the project with the Transport Planner and one of the Traffic Engineers from Stonnington Council, and point out to them where I want the six pedestrian [...]

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A Walk in the Park

Posted in A Walk in the Park, tagged , , , on 11 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Today, as part of a course I’m doing, I launched a community project called ‘A Walk in the Park’.  Its purpose is to get Stonnington Council to instal six pedestrian crossings in the neighbourhood of Toorak village by May 2009.  At the moment, there are no pedestrian crossings in this small but densely populated area.  This is one of the reasons why [...]

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