The pedestrian council of Australia

Here is one of my favourites Advocacy Groups that I did not, and could not have made up.

The patrons are Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE and the Hon Sir Laurence Street AC KCMG – which just goes to show that a lifetime of sucking off the tit doesn’t improve one’s judgement.

The CEO and Chairman is one Harold Scruby (love that name…in a former era he would have been president of the local RSL) who pops up on TV whenever a pedestrian gets run over, primarily because there is nothing else to video for the news.

“The Pedestrian Council of Australia Limited is an Incorporated (Public) Company, limited by guarantee. It was incoporated on 1 August 1996. It is a non-profit organisation whose objectives, as stated in its Memorandum of Association are:

1. the continual improvement of pedestrian safety, amenity and access;

2. the promotion of walking as a legitimate transport mode and an important, healthy, social activity;

3. the encouragement of the inclusion of pedestrian safety, amenity and access provisions in all urban and transport planning;

4. the enhancement of community health and welfare and particularly the enhancement of the health and welfare of those members of the community who are aged, infirm, disabled, young, socially disadvantaged, tourists or included in any other special interest group or group of persons under any kind of handicap or disability; and

5. research (including experiments and surveys and their publication) into all aspects of the objects set out in 1, 2, 3 and 4.”