I do not mean going through just before or after they turn red, I mean actually pulling up to traffic lights and going through when they are red.

I had noticed this very disturbing trend a lot lately and had also noticed it this time last year and the year before.

Are these drivers trying to kill just themselves or other road users as well?

Because that is what will happen if this dangerous and deadly act does not stop.

RICHARD Pickup’s claim (The Examiner, October 13) that it takes at least 15 minutes to walk to the city centre (as opposed to the five minutes I claimed) from the site of what will be the new University of Tasmania Inveresk/Willis Street campuses is a gross overestimate.

To ensure some accuracy of my claim I walked to the central business district northern edge, from Inveresk, in precisely five and a half minutes.

After seven minutes I was passing through the centre of the city and after 15 minutes had reached just beyond Canning Street.

Naturally, we all have our own walking pace; however, I am a 50-year-old man of reasonable fitness so fairly representative of a wide range of people who actually take the time to walk places.

There is also the fact that Metro operate the free Tiger bus service from Invermay into the city and return.

The new campuses will open up the opportunity for students and staff to frequent the city on a far more regular basis than is available with the Newnham campus.

It is up to businesses in the CBD to make it attractive for them take advantage of that opportunity.

SO THE United States under the Trump administration, along with Israel have withdrawn from UNESCO, one of the most worthwhile organisations on the planet.

This will only further isolate America and Israel from the rest of the world and open the way for the Trump "fairyland" to cause more environmental chaos in his own country. Oh, for another Obama - intelligent, understanding, diplomatic, educated - all the things that Trump is not.

AT LAST, thanks to the intervention of Aussie entrepreneur Dick Smith all Australians can now enjoy the wonderful paintings of Aboriginal icon Albert Namatjira free of all copyright restrictions.

Namatjira's amazing watercolours are now back in the hands of where they belong; his family members, and with early indications to the contrary, we shall all be able to view publically his works after decades of restrictions. In this case 'the paintings on the wall' - not the writing, and we can't wait to see them.

WITH so much sad news of late the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson in “In Memoriam” best express my thoughts.

“I sometimes hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I feel; For words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

AN ARTICLE (The Examiner, October 4) mentioned the council would give away half the circular carpark at Inveresk was an interesting statement: “It will allow for greater pedestrian movement.”

Presumably this is after the dozens of drivers have parked somewhere else and then magically transformed into pedestrians.

THE government's introduction of daylight savings isn’t really doing justice towards the prevention of skin cancer. Either way you look at it, we’re exposed to more sunlight than usual.

The native wallaby still comes out at the “same time” of an evening and the native plants still grow according to the shadows which remain the same.

CAN it be possible that the Boland Street nightmare is almost over? An absurd saga that has cost a fortune in pointless bungling, posturing and prevarication.

Every rational person will support Michael Newton and wish him well in his action.

MY LATE father was a ganger on the section between Turners Marsh and Lilydale from 1940 until his retirement in 1949, after a long career with Tasmanian Railways.

I can recall living in a railway house at Karoola when I was about four years of age and relocating to Lalla when I was about five years old (La Providence vineyard now stands) where we resided until his retirement from hard manual labour (no cranes or backhoes) maintaining the rail corridor.

Now some people want to remove the infrastructure with no thoughts for future generations. Any rail lines should preserved for future generations to redevelop if they desire. I deplore those people for being destructive of our heritage. Tourist trains and bicycles would co-exist for all if all parties forget their pride and work for a sensible outcome. 

I plead with all government parties to legislate to halt any removal of any of our rail heritage across the state.

IT IS deplorable that the Tasmanian Government wasted millions of dollars on trying to eradicate imaginary foxes when for a fraction of that price these funds could have been used to treat the very real and devastating sarcoptic mange endured by our wombats.