Parking – an unresolved issue
Curious with the parking issue which sparked the NSW parliamentary debate on allegations of racial vilification, I decided to do some historical research by going back to the archives of the Cabramatta Citywatch meetings to see whether it was raised.
Cabramatta station
Back in October, 2005, the minutes indicated that the issue of parking at Cabramatta railway station was raised albeit being "deferred to the next council meeting". The next meeting which was held in December, 2005. It then cancelled the issue due to Fairfield Council Mayor, Nick Lalich’s absence. Again, it was deferred until the next meeting. The next meeting jumped to February 2006. It seemed the issue had disappeared altogether, along with the passing over of the New Year.
Fairfield Council’s media release advises protesters that there’s no point protesting because “the issue is not even on the meeting agenda”. But to balance things out, they do know it exists. I guess they just don't want to deal with it - yet.
What puzzles me most is that Councillor Khoshaba's "no spitting" proposal took only two weeks to pass to become new council regulation. Yet the parking issue has remained dormant year after year.
The Council (well, Councillor White specifically) blames parking fines on Asians. The people blame it on the lack of council initiative in fixing the lack of parking spots in congested Cabramatta. Unfortunately, the communication link is missing. That or the Council is ignoring it as seen by the “kicking of the dirt under the carpet” trick because I myself have witnessed Cabramatta develop for the past fifteen years, and believe me – the parking lot is just as packed as it was back in 1991. Perhaps even more so since its image got revamped after terrible media coverage in the late 90's.
posted by Thao @ 11:34 pm
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