Another Clayton’s consultation in Victoria: this time Lyn Kosky, Public Transport Minister, is after comments about "train pain".
Talk about making it difficult to ensure your comments go to the right spot! It’s almost as if the lack of organization is intentional. Geeks would say the Minister wants all criticism directed to /dev/null (a.k.a. a black hole).
I got a note from egov.vic.gov.au, that pointed to an article in The Age (2008-05-15), which included the following:
Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky yesterday invited frustrated commuters to contact her directly, via Premier John Brumby’s website (www.premier.vic.gov.au), with their comments and questions.
Commuters have also been invited to text their questions or comments to the Government on a special SMS line at 134 688 (you must include the letters PT before comments).
The move is a turnaround on an email Ms Kosky sent to Labor colleagues last year, telling them not to bother her with complaints from commuters about trains and trams.
Not surprisingly for Victoria, there is no nice central way to classify comments to the premier via the site mentioned, and at least three different places to post comments.
Naturally, I assumed there’d be more details available in recent media releases by Minister Kosky, so I went searching, without success, here. Guess what? No media release about this call for comments.
So, I tried the recent media releases from transport.vic.gov.au, then the page devoted to media releases about trains, then the page for recent updates to the transport.vic.gov.au site.
No luck. Am I wrong to be suspicious?
