6 Chancellor Street

SHERWOOD 4075

 5 January 2007

The Executive Director – Bill Hauritz

Woodford Folk Festival

Queensland Folk Federation

PMB 2

Woodford 4514.

 

Dear Bill,

Sustainable Transport Campground Publicity

 

Congratulations to Woodford Folk Festival [WFF] and Epic Cycles [EC] for providing the ‘sustainable transport camp-ground’ [STC] catering to Festival campers travelling by bicycle or public transport, and typically creating only a small ecological footprint  at Woodford – many small tents co-located in a small tree-shaded space, a compact communal meeting place, and no car-parking spaces required. 

 

The much used and appreciated end-of-trip and common room facilities within the marquee comprised –

  • Bicycle storage racking, and floor mounted tyre-pump;
  • Kitchen, cooking, dining, lounge, discussion area; and
  • Temporary tent erection/demolition area, and a clothes drying area during inclement weather.

The basic home comforts of eskies, meal preparation/dining tables, and chairs, dish wash-up facilities and a potable water supply provided a comfortable well-equipped campsite – the STC! 

 

It would be mutually beneficial to WFF, EC and potential users of the STC if the STC facility- particularly mentioning its amenities, and location, was better publicised

  • on the WFF website;
  • at the Woodford Ticket Office, including providing a limited number of printed Season Camp-ground site maps with the STC location clearly depicted on it, for distribution to STC customers arriving at the Woodford Ticket Office; and
  • with signage directing STC users to the site by the shortest, practicable route.

 

I commend WFF give consideration to providing a pedestrian/cycle entrance (not motor vehicle width) to the STC from beside the Woodford Ticket Office, and incorporate this area with the current STC. This will allow easy access to the site and provide a larger STC area that usage in 2006-07, and enhanced publicity will necessitate for subsequent years.

 

I would appreciate being appraised of developments as I am seeking to have Centenary Bikeways Group, a bicycle-users-group based in Brisbane’s western suburbs, provide enhanced publicity for the WFF and its STC initiative on its website: centenarybikeways.org

 

Regards

 

 

John C Taylor