BILL Moar believes he can be part of a new fresh change as a Swan Hill Rural City Council councillor.
Mr Moar said he decided to nominate as a candidate in the Central Ward after he was asked by a Bridge Position Action Committee member.
But he said no candidates would be running on one-issue.
“Realistically if elected, it would take one per cent of our time,” he said.
“To think any one of us is standing on one issue is wrong.”
That said, he found the 9a bridge option, a lift-span bridge upstream of the current bridge cutting through Riverside Park to be “nonsensical”.
“I don’t know if the other avenues have been fully pursued, but I know it is in the wrong place.”
He said opposition to a downstream option from industrial areas or Indigenous groups could be negotiated and compromises explored.
“Perhaps council have explored that, but have they tried hard enough?”
For more of this story see today’s (October 3, 2012) Guardian.
