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Lift in petition numbers

09 Feb, 2012 12:00 AM
WENTWORTHVILLE residents, politicians and business people have joined together and started a petition to pressure the state government to build lifts at their train station.

Almost 1000 signatures have already been put to paper after just one week of the campaign to bring disabled access to Wentworthville Station.

Yookie Mjoberg, who signed the petition on Tuesday morning, said she had been asking for lifts since she moved to Wentworthville more than two decades ago.

"I'm 75 and honestly it's horrible," she said.

"I live by myself and I have this wheelie bag and I can't get up the stairs with it, everyone needs to carry groceries.

"I see other old women and they struggle and younger women with prams.

"I've asked so many times at the station and they say they keep trying. We need to get [lifts] in tomorrow."

Shirley Silk from the Wentworthville Business committee, who organised the petition, was spurred into action after she heard a large business had refused to set up in her suburb when they discovered the station had no wheelchair access.

"Our mission is to get 10,000 signatures," she said.

Parramatta MP Geoff Lee said he would take the 10,000 signatures to the NSW parliament.

"I'm delighted to give my full support to the Wenty Business Committee," he said.

"Within a week over 50 businesses have joined the campaign, collecting more than 920 signatures.

"We're on our way to the targeted 10,000 signatures."

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A VERY WORTHY CAUSE!
Posted by Signature, 9/02/2012 9:59:17 AM, on Parramatta Sun
I've laboured hard to get lifts set up at Harris Park Station too!
Posted by Dennis, 9/02/2012 10:44:49 AM, on Parramatta Sun
Thumbs up on this one. I know the Council only recently resolved to approach the Minister on this one too. Looks like a critical mass is forming...
Posted by Clr Ross Grove, 9/02/2012 7:53:17 PM, on Parramatta Sun
Dennis, how do we continue the push for a lift at Harris Park?
Posted by Angela, 12/02/2012 2:23:15 PM, on Parramatta Sun
@ Angela, hound both G. Berejiklian (minister) & Geoff Lee (MP) about it! It needs awnings in addition to lifts. Sell the idea that it's 'right next door' to Parramatta CBD!
Posted by Dennis, 12/02/2012 10:02:46 PM, on Parramatta Sun
Angela, go to Geoff Lee, MP, about it in person. Also raise the Parramatta to Epping scenario with him, along with some friends, as a matter of urgency!
Posted by INVINCIBLE, 12/02/2012 10:43:12 PM, on Parramatta Sun
Amazing - We live in a 1st world country, pay taxes and we need a bunch of signatures to spur the state government to do something that is needed by the community. What we are actually saying to the elderly, disabled and mothers with prams - please don't live in wentworthville. Sorry for being sarcastic here. I just signed a the petition this morning at the fruit shop.
Posted by SA, 13/02/2012 12:49:48 PM, on Parramatta Sun

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Struggle: Yookie Mjoberg, 75, said Wentworthville Station, which she has struggled up the stairs of for 20 years, needs lifts tomorrow. Picture Gene Ramirez
Struggle: Yookie Mjoberg, 75, said Wentworthville Station, which she has struggled up the stairs of for 20 years, needs lifts "tomorrow". Picture Gene Ramirez

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