Hobart residents could be asked their view on city bike lane project, with a group of businesses warning it might try to force a non-binding elector poll over the lanes.
At next Monday's council meeting, Alderman Louise Bloomfield will move on behalf of the group the trial, which would replace about 50 parking spaces on Collins street with bike lanes for two years, be deferred indefinitely. The non-compulsory vote — conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission via postal voting — would not bind the council to any particular decision.
"Other compromises included only taking up one side of the road and using bi-directional bike lanes, which basically only takes that one side, instead of the current proposal to lock out both sides," he said. "I would suggest small business owners know more about their own businesses than people on the outside."Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds said ratepayers had a right to organise elector polls but warned they came at a significant cost — about $200,000.
"When these kind of projects have been put in place in other cities around Australia or around the world, the same sort of concerns are raised, but once the street improvements are made people realise that their concerns were not born out by the actual experience," she said.
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