Eat Street
HOW DID launceston’s so called “Eat Street” get out of hand in what seems to be a bit of an experiment by the council gone wrong.
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And has got to be too hot to handle.
The council has now passed a temporary 20 km/h speed limit on one of the cities main outlets in an effort to improve safety while the vans are in place.
Sharla Karol from one of the food vans that use the area on High Street next to St George’s Square has said they would love to see the council put in some money to widen the street, also put in crosswalks and improve safety.
Council does not have money to set up selling points for food vans when streets and road divides around the suburbs go into more disrepair.
Move the vans off the main road would be the first priority that council should deploy.
The people came to where the vans are so if the vans are moved the people will follow.
David Parker, West Launceston.
Hare Clark
WE MOVED to Tasmania in 1970 from an electoral system that elected first past the post.
In the UK, I voted for Winston Churchill at our local constituency of Woodford Green in Essex. He won office by 14,000 votes.
The system here is odd to say the least in vote for X and you get Y. You may also get Z who was apparently unelectable.
The system takes weeks to get a result and in addition nobody has a clue what’s going on. It must cost money that we cannot afford.
In the UK the results were declared by 10pm on the day of polling and even blind Freddie could work which party had government.
We think that we are intelligent people but cannot understand this crazy system. Why not first past the post, the result on the day and who is going to govern?
It would cost far less, be fully understandable and the long suffering electorate would know what’s going on.
I am sure that a renewed public interest would elect a better government.