Multanova location upsets Mayor
An entry statement with a difference.
That is what Geraldton Mayor Shane Van Styn discovered yesterday when he drove past a welcome sign for the city on the North West Coastal Highway.
Next to the bright, colourful sign was a multanova, set up by police to catch speeding drivers.
Van Styn said the area was rebuilding its identity at as a tourist area and placing the speed camera next to a sign helping that was not “very welcoming”.
“We are trying to make people feel welcome, but here is our welcome sign with a multanova sign next to it,” he said.
“There is an entire highway where they could have put it.”
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