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Time trial at pound CLOSE to $1 million has been spent on Mornington Peninsula Shire’s community animal shelter and pound in Watt Rd, Mornington. Councillors were out in force to officially open the revamped centre last week and now the rules are being changed so that impounded animals can be viewed, without appointment, for possible adoption on Saturdays. See “Pound opens with adoption time trial” Page 6 Shelter administration officer Nicole Carr is pictured with a “guest” at the pound. Picture: Supplied
Transport petition stalls Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au A PETITION with 1574 signatures urging the state government to review public bus transport on the Mornington Peninsula was knocked back by state parliament last week. Nepean MP Martin Dixon was refused leave to table the petition by the Peninsula Residential Parks and Villages Group because it was “not in the correct form”.
The group’s chairman, Bob Dalmau, said the refusal was a “roadblock but we’ll get around it somehow”. “It is very frustrating; they just threw it out,” he said. “We are doing this for the community which needs more buses down here. “Whole communities at Mornington, Hastings, Dromana and Martha Cove are not being serviced and that’s why we want this review so we can get these sites fixed up.” At the start of their campaign Mr Dalmau and members were pictured
in Main St, Mornington seeking signatures to the petition aimed at ending a “legacy of under-investment in public transport over many years” (“Call for Transport Review” The News, 10/7/2017). The petition was to be presented to Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan, with a request that the review “identify and resolve some very important shortcomings in [bus] services”. “Significant residential and commercial development has occurred over the past 20 years with little or no consider-
ation given to the adjustment of existing public transport bus routes or new services,” Mr Dalmau said at the time. “Our region is home to one of the state’s largest over-60s populations, with one-in-three people in this cohort. “This group – the biggest user of public transport – is poorly serviced.” The Peninsula Residential Parks and Villages Group, which represents the interests of caravan parks and and retirement village residents, asked Mornington Peninsula Shire for help with an advocacy plan to improve public
transport on the peninsula. The shire’s infrastructure strategy acting manager Chris Munro told The News the group had “received advice and [was] now constructing a legally-worded petition to access a wider audience and get more signatures” on the petition. Mr Dalmau last week said the state government was “not listening to us oldies, but we’ve got a lot of votes”. “They don’t know our area and couldn’t care less about us. If we were a marginal seat I’m sure we’d be getting the review.” Continued Page 10
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