The Leaflet from the Australian
Technology Park Precinct Management Ltd
March 2011
Dear Car
Owner,
If you work
at the Australian Technology Park (ATP), we ask that you consider the needs of
the local community when parking your vehicle. Using local streets for parking,
whilst legally permissible, can impact on the amenity of local residents.
The staff of
ATP are not the only ones parking in these streets, but we all have a responsibility
to work with the local community to help out where we can.
ATPPML has
a discount parking scheme for the staff of tenants of the ATP. However, with
this letter is key information about public transport to and from ATP. The park
is well serviced by public transport including rail and bus and you may find
this a better option than driving your car to and from work.
Using
public transport can be more efficient, save you money, and it also helps the environment.
We would
appreciate you giving serious consideration to this information. Please help us
all to be good neighbours with our local community.
If you
require any further information on the parking at ATP please call ATPPML on
9209 4205.
Yours
sincerely,
ATPPML
Management
The Reply from Commuters at the ATP
March 2011
To: ATPPML Management, Everleigh
Cc:
Traffic Engineer, Sydney City
Council
Cc: Residents
REPLY TO ATP LETTER DROP RE:
PARKING AROUND TECHNOLOGY PARK, MARCH 2011
Let’s be perfectly clear about
this. Both the workers at Global/Seven on the ATP site and the residents in
surrounding streets are the victims here of corporate greed. If you were
seriously concerned about the impact this site is having on our neighbours’
streets you would open and utilize the locked and empty, 260 space car park
sitting in front of the Global/Seven building. You would not be charging
hundreds of dollars per month for your on site car parks and the operators of
the multi level car park that sits, mostly empty, under the Global/Seven
building would open it for general use by the building’s occupiers. But no, you
have sought to extort money from us – workers who have been transplanted here
from operational sites elsewhere in Sydney where free parking had been provided
for more than forty years.
Many of us in the Global/Seven
building are young women; many are onset TV crew working 12 hr days starting
and finishing in the dark; many carry equipment and armfuls of confidential
materials to and from work. Public transport to a station in one of the most
unsafe areas of Sydney is not an option.
Our employers have failed in
their duty of care and to compensate us in this regard, you at ATP are seeking
only to make money out of the situation.. These are the facts of
the matter as we see them.
Sincerely,
Vehicle owners who work
within the ATP precinct, Everleigh