Reading this report and looking at the options, this would have to be the most ridiculous proposal imaginable!
WHAT!!?? ... $4M TO PARK 40 CARS(?) = $100,000/car.
This is Public Money utterly wasted on a private development.
Traffic lights on the approach road to Paterson Bridge, exiting traffic up the Brisbane St Zigzag to Hill St then down Canning St back to the city.
What must the vista of this be from across the city? And that is without adding the Gondola terminus at the end, the viewing platform and the upper structure of the passenger Lift from the Penny Royal below !! This zannyness of the highest order!!
It must be noted that the officer’s recommendation is to NOT PROCEED with the funding request until after the Gorge Reimagining Project is concluded.
The list of follies in this proposal are too many by far to begin to discuss here but LCC spending this kind of money without there being a dividend to ratepayers would be stretching the 'friendship'(?) too far.
On the face of it NO PUBLIC MONEY should be invested in this project except that provided by investors on the prospect of a fiscal dividend. Aside from RATE RELIEF there are so many projects more deserving of ratepayers' hard earned dollars.
CLICK BELOW TO ACCESS THE REPORT:
http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/upfiles/lcc/cont/_council/council/council_meetings/council_meeting_agendas/27_april_2015/attachment_2__gorge_skylift_development_total_pages34.pdf
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THE INTERNET LINK FOR THIS REPORT IS
http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/upfiles/lcc/cont/_council/council/council_meetings/council_meeting_agendas/27_april_2015/attachment_2__gorge_skylift_development_total_pages34.pdf
At least the Council's staff can see a problem in supporting this nonsense proposal. How do ratepayers/ come to pay the big bucks these reports cost??? Please no more public money to support this totally inappropriate project.
See The Examiner's reporting – http://www.examiner.com.au/story/3031618/call-to-defer-gorge-gondola-funding-discussions/?cs=95
What I cannot understand is why ratepayers need to pay for consultations developers want. Sure they pay rates too, some maybe not,but the cost of a commercial development needs to be paid by the developer.
There are services that ratepayers want, and should be getting, that cannot be delivered due to the cost of these reports, expensive reports usually, the council gets done to justify spending money for the benefit of developers.
Do we really need development at any cost? Should ratepayer be project underwriters?
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