Passive recreation in Puckeys Reserve

For more than twenty years, a group of friends met on Saturday morning at 8.00 am with our dogs on leads to walk through Puckeys reserve. Many other groups also regularly met and we all got to know each other.

Unfortunately we can no longer walk through this passive recreation area because Council has allowed Parkrun to run the track at this time. No one walks the track at this time, the time when the track was most heavily used for passive recreation. My wife, who has scleroderma, was hit by a runner, running flat out over the lagoon bridge. We walk elsewhere now, but my wife has given up now.

I know you wanted positive stories, but since Parkrun started in the Nature Reserve, part of our social get togethers and the Social get togethers of many other people has been destroyed . People running flat out are not doing this to enjoy the natural beauty of the area, or to enjoy the company of friends, and I cannot see why this group is allowed to destroy other peoples enjoyment of the area at the time when it would normally be at its busiest. I ask that you have some Councillors try to walk the track at 8.00 am ona Saturday morning and tell me that they found it a pleasurable experience