Community Care Regional Forum ' Sydney/ Nepean' - Western Sydney Community Forum

WSCF is inviting all leaders, managers and coordinators of aged care and disability services in Western Sydney and Nepean, as well as all relevant stakeholders who may be in other sectors. Wednesday 20 March 2019 1:00pm to 3:00pm Nepean Room, Penrith City Council The session will be focusing on: Strategic planning for the future of the Western Sydney/Nepean Regional Managers' Community Care Forum being facilitated by Tom Nance   A presentation from guest speaker, Beatriz Cardona from The Multicultural Network, on aged care reforms and an update on new information available in this space For more information please contact Nadiana Albistur at nadiana.albistur@wscf.org.au or 02 9687 9669. Register Here Western Sydney Community Forum members access a wide range of benefits and offers throughout the year, including special rates for tickets to events such as the Annual ZEST Awards. Not a WSCF Member? Join Now

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Tips On Gardening - Penrith City Council - 'whyilovemountdruitt' Face Book Page

Vanessa Campbell shared a photo.

Yesterday at 2:15 PM

If anyone wants some tips on gardening, this workshop is close and free https://www.facebook.com/259016264861/posts/10156456226634862?sfns=mo

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Get hands on with the free Thornton Community Garden workshop on Saturday 16 Feb! Places are limited so get your booking in now to get some great tips on gardening and learn about the local community garden in Thornton. The workshop runs from 5-6pm at Thornton Community Centre. It’s free, but you need to book. To register, call Sue on 4732 7837 or email sue.hunt@penrith.city. There’ll also be food and other free activities to enjoy afterwards, as part of the Reimagine Ageing Festivalhttp://ow.ly/c2Z850krzRF

Bus Shelters: Shoud Be Our Choice To Suit Our Community In NSW Bus Region 1

Whilst one of my passionate advocacy issues is public transport and it's infrastructure, that comes with it.

Our bus stops within Mount Druitt and NSW Bus Region 1, I have been advocating for propper bus shelters that reflect the area or  simple designed bus shelters that do not promote anti-social behaviours like: graffitti, destruction of bus stop signs or shelters. 

Even though we are in NSW Bus Region 1, this region includes the following LGA councils: Blacktown City Council, Penrith City Council, Hawkesbury City Council and parts of Fairfield City Council. Each Council has it's own  area that approves bus shelters that are recommended by the bus company/public and approved by the NSW Government. This is based on costs and designs reflecting the area we live in.

At present. we tend to have bus stops in our area that prone to breaking glass pannels consistanly and re-occuring graffitti. What we don't have is a simpliflied designed bus shelters that reflect the area we live in like using Dharrug Tribe history messages /paintings /stories. We have bus shelters that feel like we live in a concrete jungle and no one understands the creation and merrits of it's full designs.

Bus shelters could be an eyecatching or a topic of conversations, if  produced and installed in a way that is attractive within  our community. Properly designed bus shelters which allows input from the locals from our community would be even better. I mean, we are the people that have to live and use these bus stops with bus shelters and the final choices should really be made with us as we look at designs.

So, to do this I will  show you the 2 different types of bus shelters we have (old and new) and then other bus shelters from Penrith City Council and Hawkesbury City Council. I would like to recommend to all Stake holders that all bus stops in NSW Bus Region 1 remain with the same appearance and recognition of the history of the area and not be based on LGA areas.

 You can decide yourselves, on the following bus shelters:

 

The two photos above are bus stops within Mount Druitt area (old and new), Blacktown City Council, Local Government Area. The left one is the type of Bus shelter that was removed from Whalan Shops quite a few years ago -  by anti-social behaviour. Both bus shelters do not reflect any design that is historically related  or attributed to the area.  Having glass pannels - all around the bus shelter- may create further costs for repairs and damage by anti-social beahviour community members.

User friendly bus shelters should be used, which will not even make people think of destroying by any way, any bus stops and eenjoy the bus shtop shelters that can be appreciated by our community.

Here are bus shelters, within NSW Bus Region 1 that in my thought (which I am only one voice for  our community), could be easily produced and installed, bringing a better uplifted look to bus stops within our area. Let's hope stake holders consider them for the next lot of bus shelters to be installed. 

 

This (photo above) is the bus stop design and installebd by Hawkesbury City Coumcil. spotted im Windsor

The two photos above is my favourite bus stop shelter that I  personally like. It has no walls, airconditioned and  can protect you from rain and sun. A simple design that could easily have a short history of the area placed on the bus shelter. Thank you to Penrith City Council for imstalling them. We hope that Blacktown City Council can follow up on these bus shelters, which may also create less anti-social  behaviour towards this design and installation  of this  bus shelter.

 What do you think?