Notes: Only Members may lodge petitions. A person wishing to petition the Assembly must forward the petition to a Member and ask the Member to present it. While there is nothing in the Standing Orders to compel a Member to present a petition, most Members take the view that they should seek to present any petition forwarded to them, even if the views represented in the petition do not reflect the views of the Member presenting it.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY:

WE THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH

That the Barneson Boulevard and Tiger Brennan Drive final duplication stage project (the project) will severly disadvantage the residents of Darwin city and surrounds.

The disadvantages arising from the project include but are not limited to:

Loss of irreplaceable cultural, botanical and historic assets

The opening of serverly environmenatly degraded land

The degradation of public open space

A city that is in direct opposition of good planning practices in reagrds to traffic management

The breaking of the proposed light rail pathway

The trust of the residents of Darwin CBD and surrounds given that the public consultaion process ahs been revealed to have been flawed.

The flaws identified but not limited to:

No trees in Frog Hollow will be touched

There are no contaminants in road pathway

A certain points the road will be 8 lanes wide

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YOUR PETITIONERS THEREFORE HUMBLY PRAY THAT

The NT Government will immediately cease the project in entirity and engage with all stakeholders in a open process of creating a functioanl CBD

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AND YOUR PETITIONERS, AS IN DUTY BOUND, WILL EVER PRAY. [Name] [Signatures] [Address]