Sunday, February 8, 2009

What you had to say

On January 28th over 50 people came to Eddison Park to tell Convic Design and PCL (Parks, Conservation and Lands) what they wanted to see at the park.


Here is a record of what people at the meeting wanted in the youth plaza. Comments from the reference group meeting will be in the next post.

Comments are listed on initial of contributor. Comments not noted by a particular person are under General Comments:

General Comments:
Lighting to skate at night like Tuggeranong
Shade trees – better than ‘roof / shelter’
Nerang – too many trees?
Damaging skate
Must be challenging to skate
Frankston kidney or clover bowl
Skydock 8ft quarters
Banked hip with gap, bank to wall
Big piece in the middle; image of Vietnam as long as it is skateable
Jersey Barrier
Joining bowls to create Box jump
Flatbank to quarter like Woodwood East
Not Gungahlin mellow transition
Key holes
Seperation between age groups but developmental
Paths connecting to other suburbs
Tight banks
Wedge ledge
Street
Flow all around not back and forth
Hips
Shade over park
Fast wall rides
Step back ledge
Step-up bowl section 8-9ft up to steep
4-5ft tight section
Cry if Geelong happens,; structure/artistic stuff to have lines to it
Volleyball wanted
Basketball 3 point area

J:
Jersey barrierTriangles / banks with edgeBank to wallHubbasFlatbank to hubbas Flatbar / across and down rail (doesn't have to be with stairs, flatbanks can be more user friendly)Euro gapTrannied planter boxes / creative trannied objectsTriangle legdes / wavy ledges / curved ledges

R:
Jump box
Hill n Dale

J:
Erindale Skatepark - banks
leaves from tree to be cleaned with broom
Poplars instead if Blue Gums
Gungahlin transition
Woden bowl destroyed
Weston Creek
‘Moonscape’ Plaza
Dubbo without the capsule
No social bowl, Pool literally tight transition
Crater Park
Bowl not like belco
Flow
No flat spots
Eurogap
Nerang limited flow, why put a block in the runway?
Keep it simple
Come out of 6ft quarter to ledge
Concrete skate surface
Civic doesn’t flow
Built well
Cater for BMX even though not really into it as long as its not all that ‘big ramps’
Doesn’t have to be pure bowl but speed and a ‘sense’ of a bowl
Kids learn so fast and have no fear

C:
Cairns, Waterloo/Fernside & Cammeray Plaza North Sydney
Ledges, stairs and rails
Frankston small bowl
Two blocks better than one in a run
Stuff for beginners

N:
Redlands Plaza, bowl no granite

P:
More street
Gungahlin, Weston, Tuggeranong
Already got ‘Viking BMX’?

C:
So much transition in Canberra
Walls with transition
Nerang
Banks in triangle keep skating
Flow continuously ride

W:
Frankston number 2 bowl not fast enough
Pambula big tranny to much flat not enough bowl section
12ft high hip woth semi box jump?
Go high

T:
Skate plaza
Tight transition
Weston mellow transition

R:
8ft bowl
Only enclosed bowl Belco

S:
Massive hip bank
The park must work both ways left and right

D:
Varsity bowl, not street course
Waves and cradle

E:
Water fountain
Lush seating environment

D:
Decent sized bowl

P:
Street park
Wack fun stuff you find in street
Hand rails not too high, handrails at Civic

J:
We try and skate street and we get kicked out
Capalaba ‘heaps good’
Bowl and street

R:
Banks, wall and stairs…heaps
Pyramid that you don’t think you can skate

B&J:
Creative, fun, flow, nothing gets in the way
No waiting around for the one way and one direction. Multiple directions
Stairs with bank up with eurogap to return
6 stair

C:
Something like Geelong is amazing

K:
Bowl, hips, sub boxes
Weston & Tuggeranong
Spine
Down capsule with ramp

L:
‘Wife chair’
Lounges

B:
Play music
Erindale banks are the best thing in Canberra Pros like Shane Croft, Jamie Thomas, Matt has go insane coverage
Tight transition which is difficult to skate

M:
Scooty Shearer ‘woopty woo’
Goanna Gold Coast RSLl pokies
Erindale banks
Brick and any materials! Wood
Acrylic/Polycarbonate see through
Abstract materials

L:
Pole jams
Wall rides
Before putting in concrete the bowl/bank used to be sick? A local skate spot(?) which was wrecked by lumping conc to create transition

A:
Curved ledge like Banana plastic park seats

P:
More car parking to cater for evens, office workers and school use carpark
Parking along entry to Cemetery would be good
Childrens area

Other comments:
Shade trees better than roof

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