Mr Anthony Albanese, Australia’s Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, could deliver so much by changing only ONE law….we’re so close – yet so far. In Australia Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) are classified as motor vehicles. This is despite almost all other Countries changing the classification so that they can be used as pedestrian aides. They’re illegal to use in Australia on our footpaths, shared user paths, shared zones, cycleways and other areas they were designed to go. For years Australian planners and engineers have been designing and building cycleways: – the potential is already in place to revive our cities and utilise this infrastructure. By allowing the use of PMDs on our footpaths, cycleways and shared user paths we will UNLOCK this massive resource and enable MANY more people to make use of these transport access ways. In doing so someone living within 10km of where they want to go will reduce carbon pollution by 13 fold (compared with a car)! They will free up public transport – by displacing the short trips, thus allowing even more capacity within our existing networks to be unleashed. Copy this web address to take you to a report that details how PMDs can solve many problems we face www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/_Documents/Mtg-Council2011/gm2011_221111a_Att.pdf Contact your Federal member and insist they help you and your family reduce the cost and difficulty in getting to work, a train station or to attend those chores involving shorter trips …