INCIDENT CORRESPONDENCE SENT TO

PO Box 1568 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012.
Email: cyclecentennial@hotmail.com

INCIDENT CORRESPONDENCE SENT TO THE DIRECTOR CENTENNIAL PARKLANDS

Box 154 Kensington NSW 1465

Email: cyclecentennial@hotmail.com

Web page: http://www.randwickbotanycc.com/Cycle%20Centennial

Marlene Krasovitsky

Acting Director

Centennial Parklands

Locked Bag 15

Paddington NSW 2021

8^th August 2003

Dear Madam,

I wish to report a dangerous incident which posed a real threat to cyclists in the early hours of the morning of Friday 8 August 2003.

Mr Ben Still, a member of the Randwick Botany Cycling Club reports:

"This morning I saw a lady running in the cycle lane at around 6.15am. She had a white top and blue pants on, and was running on the right edge of the cycle lane about 2.5 metres in from the edge of the roadway. She was running in a clockwise direction in the Grand Drive so she had no view of cyclists as they approached her from behind. She was hard to see and posed a real risk to cyclists."

Cycle Centennial would like to assist Centennial Parklands, in accordance with Centennial Parklands Draft Code of Conduct item 4.6, by bringing this to your attention and we would respectfully request that you document this incident. The incident has also been recorded on our website, http://www.randwickbotanycc.com/Cycle%20Centennial/incident_register.htm, which currently enjoys approximately 40,000 hits per week.

Yours faithfully

John Buckton

Cycle Centennial

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pillidge" <Mark.Pillidge@cp.nsw.gov.au>
To: John Buckton (president@randwickbotanycc.com)
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Alleged unsafe practices by Centennial Parklands Ranger - 7Aug
03

Dear John

I refer to your letter of the 8 August 03 to the Acting Director Marlene Krasovitsky in which you raised concerns about the alleged unsafe practices of a Centennial Parklands ranger on the morning of
the 7 August 03.

To date the letter from Mr Robert Gorman of the Sydney triathlon club STEAM about this incident has not been received at CentennialParklands. All Centennial Parklands rangers assigned for duties on the morning in question have been interviewed and it has been established that no ranger was involved in the direction of traffic on Grand Drive between 5.45am - 7am.

It has been established that during this period there were traffic controllers conducting traffic control in relation to a film shoot within Centennial Park. There were also traffic controllers working within Centennial Park in relation to the ponds reconstruction program controlling access of heavy vehicles. These persons are not
Centennial Parklands staff, I am advised that they were RTA certified and were using the required approved equipment.

If you have any further information that may assist in the matter I would ask that you forward it for review.

It should be noted that sunrise on the 7 August 2003 was at 6.43am. With the alleged incident occurring at approximately 6.15am the cyclists involved were in breach of Clause 5 (4) of the Centennial Park &
Moore Park Trust Regulations 1999 which prohibits vehicles from being used within Centennial Parklands between sunset & sunrise except with the permission of the Trust or the Director.

Yours sincerely

Mark Pillidge,
Coordinator Access & Safety
Centennial Parklands

Ph 2 9339 6617,
M 0419 433 007
Fax 2 9360 4215
Email - mark.pillidge@cp.nsw.gov.au
Website - www.cp.nsw.gov.au