Several city councillors have endorsed automatically waiving parking fines for first offenders – plus forming a panel that would be empowered to cancel tickets on “compassionate” grounds.
The Adelaide City Council was legally prevented from making any decision on a modification to King William Street and a parklands events policy at its meeting last night because too many councillors declared conflicts of interest and excluded themselves from voting.
The Adelaide City Council last night instructed the Lord Mayor to write to Tourism Minister Leon Bignell, asking him to look into returning the Formula One Grand Prix to Adelaide. That’s despite the minister saying publicly, repeatedly this month, that he was not interested in the idea and councillors were “clowns” for suggesting it.
A new push is underway within the Adelaide City Council to reduce driving speeds to 40kph on some city roads and implement more one-way streets.