"More bike lanes and safer bike lanes. CBD
buildings to have more parking and create a network of underground carparks
around the perimeter of the CBD, for example Queen Victoria Market, Princes
Park, Yarra Park/MCG/Richmond."
Saturday 6 October 2012
Mayoral Candidates Mention QVM
GARY MORGAN, 70, executive chairman, Roy
Morgan Research
GARY SINGER, 56, deputy lord mayor 2004-08,
barrister and solicitor
"The northwest precinct of Victoria Market and
Flagstaff Gardens is a major opportunity on which we have failed to capitalise.
If elected, we will examine ways to activate the area, opening up the corridors
to the university and hospital precinct. We will create the Federation Square
of the north. For 567 Collins St, we would work with the owners to create a
park until the site is redeveloped. We would again try to reach some resolution
with the owner of the Savoy Hotel site on the corner of Bourke and Spencer
streets to create an open space for the public."