<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Colleagues,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I think Brianna is right - we have a <B>golden</B> opportunity to advise a new Minister who clearly thought the status quo (BV) was all good and all she needed etc...</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We have some articulate types in this group with a lot of bike riding policy expertise and practical experience.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Should the weekend meeting produce a delegation group who can go forward on behalf of us?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kez.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 24/01/2008, at 12:41 AM, Brianna Laugher wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On 22/01/2008, Anthony Morton <<A href="mailto:amorton@fastmail.fm">amorton@fastmail.fm</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Ms Kosky said her department had told her it had undertaken a full</DIV><DIV>consultation and review which found strong support for banning bikes</DIV><DIV>at peak hours.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Oh, but they did! They met in secret with someone at BV who said</DIV><DIV>they'd be OK with banning bikes in return for the government building</DIV><DIV>a bike cage at Eltham. :-)</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I think you were joking when you first wrote this, but I am seriously</DIV><DIV>starting to wonder if BV sold out its members by telling the DOI this</DIV><DIV>ban would be acceptable in exchange for... ???</DIV><DIV>Or if they sold out for nothing at all, that's almost worse. Not only</DIV><DIV>are they sell-outs, but they're *cheap* sell-outs. :)</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>It seems like a lot of positives may come out of this. DOI will</DIV><DIV>hopefully be wary of trusting BV's assurances again and they may have</DIV><DIV>no choice but to, gasp, talk to cyclist groups. BV will hopefully</DIV><DIV>learn not to take their position (and members) for granted.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>cheers,</DIV><DIV>Brianna</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://modernthings.org">http://modernthings.org</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV>publictransport mailing list</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:publictransport@yarrabug.org">publictransport@yarrabug.org</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://yarrabug.org/mailman/listinfo/publictransport_yarrabug.org">http://yarrabug.org/mailman/listinfo/publictransport_yarrabug.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>