Some of you have seen the Nine News Gold Coast story a few days ago. I said a lot more than was aired, but that's the nature of commercial TV News nowadays: lots of short stories, you blink and it's gone.
If you wanted to hear a bit more from me, and other residents living close to where the motorway is planned to go, now you can.
Let's start with a 1 minute intro from Stewart Brooker who lives in Coomera:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2810343112623466
Below is a link to, hopefully, the first of a series of videos taken at different locations along the Second M1. Ultimately, political parties can be influenced by election results. If they get fewer votes, or lose a seat, they try to find out why. That's our (voters, citizens) ultimate weapon, the only one guaranteed to work. Hundreds of us have been trying since September 2019 to convince the Labor government to cancel the Coomera Connector / Second M1 project. We failed. They are pushing through with it, and while initially there was ambiguity about what it would be, now it seems they are fixed on a 6-lane, 100 km/h, 45 km long motorway from Nerang to Loganholme. I am not a member of any political party. A decision how to vote is a personal choice. Many things can be considered. In this case, I know that Qld Greens and Animal Justice Party are against the Second M1. LNP describe the Second M1 in their Roads Plan as "a 4-lane arterial road". For me, arterial does not mean a motorway, but then why call it a "Second M1"? Qld Labor could still change their mind, if they wanted, but knowing what they did with the 2019 public consultation, I doubt it. If they don't, I will put Labor last - a government that manipulates the public like that, and is deaf to properly considering alternatives and full costs to the society of an infrastructure project, does not get my vote. Sorry.
Recorded 3 Oct 2020, near Coomera Waters, 15 minutes long:
https://youtu.be/Wu8vsU4nUwo
Nine News Gold Coast story aired 1 Oct 2020 at 5:30pm:
https://www.facebook.com/96933606722/posts/10157538862271723/
https://www.facebook.com/96933606722/posts/10157538862271723/
LNP Roads Plan:
https://www.lnp.org.au/roads-plan/
https://www.lnp.org.au/roads-plan/
2019 TMR Consultation:
https://nosecondm1.blogspot.com/2020/09/24-september-2020-tmr-consultation.html
https://nosecondm1.blogspot.com/2020/09/24-september-2020-tmr-consultation.html
Cheers,
Tom A.
Tom A.
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