Healthy greenery would help make a liveable city

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. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.The proposal by RMIT researchers to replace up to half the number of car spaces in the Melbourne CBD with greenery is an excellent idea . While still allowing disabled and delivery access, this would be a way of improving both the aesthetic of the city and providing health benefits associated with green spaces and reduced heat mass.

I can take my walker on the tram but I have to wait for the driver to lift it on and off and crowded trams are difficult for me. As an infrequent visitor to the CBD, due to the lack of public parking spaces, I am amazed there are actually 23,000 parking spaces. Public transport with a combination of trains and trams will get people to much of the city, but not all of it for people with mobility concerns.

In the city centre there simply are not the alleged “garages” within 200 metres of the car parking that the boffins want to remove. No way. Back to the drawing board.I am very disappointed about the federal National Party’s decision to not support a First Nations Voice to Parliament . As a white woman, I have benefited from my family’s decision to migrate to this great southern land back in the 1800s in search of a better life.

 

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