Eat Street
I WOULD like to respond to some of the comments made regarding the Eat Street location. I am not against the concept, however it would appear that the number of food vans now operating in this location; St George's Square and High Street has increased from the original plan.
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As a person who travels along this route, living in this area, it is totally congested at peak-hour traffic.
I often have near misses with pedestrians who park on the opposite of the road to the food vans and just dart out across the road in the dark to get to them.
I was not impressed by the suggestion that people should take an alternative route home. If this is your normal way to travel to and from your home, why should you have to divert and take a longer, less practical route?
Lowering the speed limit will not make any difference, people will still park close to the intersections and pedestrians will continue to take risks getting across the road, the concept has outgrown the area it operates in.
L. Scales, Punchbowl.
ALP Leadership
GOODONYA Bryan Green for having the courage to step aside from the ALP leadership in sufficient time to allow his party to renew and revitalise itself before the forthcoming state election.
Despite the Liberal party, querying if his replacement, Rebecca White, may be too ‘inexperienced’ for the role (The Examiner, Mar 18.).
I suspect she is just what the ALP needs if it is to stand any chance of winning the next election; after all William Pitt The Younger was only 24 years of age when he became Prime Minister of England in 1783 and he didn’t do too bad a job.
ALP deputy leader Michelle O’Byrne and David Llewellyn should now consider if they also haven't’ been in parliament too long and follow Mr Green's example stepping aside to enable further fresh blood, such as Brian Wightman, to return to the Parliamentary Labor Party and possibly provide some of that experience that this paper thinks the new leader may lack?
