'It's ridiculous': Canberrans enraged over Fix My Street backlog
"It is ridiculous. You go on the ramp to reach the shops and find you can't get off. It was even harder when I was in a manual wheelchair and I would get caught at the end. My report on this with photographs hasn't been addressed," he said on his report, which is one of the 40,077 cases, lodged by Canberrans on Fix My Street in the financial year 2024-25.
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