This plea comes from our fearless leaders… please read and volunteer if you can: The No Kenmore Bypass campaign is growing daily as more and more people become aware of the impact this road will have on not only the Kenmore community but on the surrounding suburbs. Some people are only just starting to realise that this road is Stage 1 of a two-staged plan by Main Roads. Stage 2 will be the Ipswich Motorway alternative… can you imagine a major highway through the western suburbs?
Main Roads is on the record as stating the the proposed Kenmore Bypass will carry 25,000 cars each day… and that is just Stage 1!
The Save our Suburb Kenmore team is working long hours volunteering their time to spread the word, to make sure everyone understands the impact of this Main Road proposal, that people write to Main Roads and to the Queensland Main Roads Minister Warren Pitt strongly protesting the proposed Kenmore Bypass and that as many people as possible get involved now before it is too late. Main Roads has given us only until 26 May 16 June to make our opinions heard.
The team is working to capacity so we are asking for any help you are willing to offer. If you can help in any of the following ways, please email us, or phone 3378 2398, 3378 2729 or 3878 6439 (this number evenings or weekends only).
Ways you can help:
- We have corflute for signs – do you have screen printing skills?
- Do you have a badge making kit or know how to make badges about 70 – 80mm in diameter?
- Will you help raise funds for the campaign?
- Do you have a venue (store or business) where you can put up a poster?
- Will you place a No Kenmore Bypass sign in your front yard? (Legal size sign provided)
- Will you distribute leaflets?
- Do you have graphic design skills?
- Are you in a business and will you donate products in kind? (We have a list of needs available on request)
- Will you phone people to tell them about the No Kenmore Bypass campaign?
- Are you a specialist in key areas such as environment, transport, road safety, health, community groups using part of the peaceful corridor?
- Will you assist with research?
- Will you doorknock your neighbourhood?
- Will you update regularly update the increasing database?
- Do you any other skills you are willing to contribute to the campaign?
Main Roads has given us such a short time to act, to respond, to make a difference… please let us know right away if you are willing to help. Even a few hours from you will make a difference. If the answer to any of the above questions is ‘yes’, please contact us now.
Thanks so much!
3 Comments to “Calling for volunteers!”
Julie
Let Kenmore know we do not want the bypass. Tell everyone by putting a sign at your house. We have a variety of signs available right now. Contact save our kenmore and we can deliver them to you. TIME IS RUNNING OUT. We have until 26 may to be effective.
Andrew
I have been disappointed for many years that the Government feels it is both democratic and moral to inflict its people with such acts of disregard and non-consent in relation to activities that are nothing less than eco terrorism. Strong words, however, justified. We all bought out here in the green belt in this country style dead end suburb with no ‘through traffic’. We all built our wonderful homes and dreams whilst filling the States treasury with taxes for the privilege of building and living in this wonderful area. The quite of this green belt was the ultimate lure, what a wonderful place to bring up our children.
Now this is to be ‘stolen’, and no other word would describe these plans, because governments of the past have not adequately anticipated and planned for the future growth of the South East. Once again we bare the brunt of bad management and we listen to politicians diving for cover while the blame is avoided.
DON’T PENALISE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THE COMMUNITY.
We put our faith in government for our whole lives…..how many times will you not hear us. Do you not understand why people dont trust the government when they inflict us with damaging decisions such as this corridor. How many times will you hurt the community that pays rates, taxes, volunteers, and upholds law and order. ‘We’ are the West. You would inflict us with your ill conceived plans because it is green and largely available? Allowing us to build here by approving housing development through the valley whilst knowing your plans for a major arterial should be deemed criminal. You accepted all of our housing development plans, took the revenue, the taxes, and then hit us with B-Doubles, Semi-Trailers, and Cars, 24 hours a day through the green belt valley that will echo and retain the pollution that is emitted as the vehicles pass through it. Shame on the government should it let this mindless scheme come to fruition.
Why not accept the error of years of mismanagement without penalising the innocent citizens. A western ring road further out to the west would redirect heavy haulage to the north without bringing it any where near the city,let’s face it, any heavy haulage going to Rocklea or Acacia Ridge will continue to use the Ipswich Motorway. The real issue is getting heavy haulage to the North. Melbourne and Sydney have ring roads in the out skirts that keep heavy haulage out of the centre of town and away from cars and local traffic. Will Brisbane put safety first? It would also give people the liberty of deciding to build close to the motorway should they choose to do so, not have Main Roads choose to build a motorway where thousands have chosen to live.
I believe a bridge through Bellbowrie and an upgrade of Sumner Road would take significant pressure away from Kenmore. With the combination of these two suggestions I believe the need for this corridor would be seriously diminished.
I consider my life and opinion is important and relevant in this community, I believe many others would feel the same way. To ignore our opinions and needs and recklessly ruin our livelihoods would send us a message that we are only important at election times and we truly don’t register as a main concern when it comes to planning this city and what is important in the greater scheme of things.
IT IS MY CONCERN how Stage 1 ends. These people are supposedly educated and they have this major corridor joining onto the Western Freeway at Fig Tree Pocket, can you imagine the bottle neck that would create?
I maintain these people are educated and not that silly. I would present now the more likely scenario that this is two of the first five stages of a major motorway heading towards the city and quite possibly joining the southern end of the city tunnel. It would be ludicrous to suggest joining the Western Freeway, although we could put up with that arrangement until the road were finished through Fig Tree Pocket, resume the land along the river through Indooroopilly Golf Course, join onto Coronation Drive and have traffic drive straight through. An alternate course would be cross the river and have an Southern Riverside Express Way down the side of West End and then join the tunnel. The government has all ready made noises about how inadequate the Riverside Expressway is.
Food for thought.
Shamela
We live in Kenmore and our two children atttend kenmore south state school.The proposed Knmore bypass would be just 100 meters away from the school. We do not support kenmore bypass due to the fact that this could increase the pollution level in this area. We honestly do not think this project would not be the best solution for the traffic problems in the area.