Bypass needed
LAUNCESTON needs a heavy vehicle bypass road. The roundabout is not the answer to Mowbray's problem. To have heavy vehicles going through Launceston streets for the North-East corner of our state it is not safety.
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After doing up our Midlands Highway to a safety standard we need a long term plan for a bypass road around Launceston to the North of the state. Our Frankford and Biralee Highways are falling apart under the work load of the trucks.
Alf Waters, Hillwood.
Metro Buses
I HAVE become a fan of Launceston's Metro buses. Eyesight problems preclude me from driving, hence a reliance on bus services. I find their buses to be comfortable and clean and keep very much to their advertised timetables.
Once on board, I am impressed with their speedy journeys and courtesy shown by all. Passengers alighting invariably thank the driver. School children passengers also display commendable politeness, allowing me to board first. I am surprised at the paucity of passengers outside peak times.
I strongly recommend bus travel to all my elderly colleagues as it is surprisingly cheap if one has a senior's card or pensioner card.
Dick James, Launceston.
Catholic Church
MARY T. Bates (The Examiner, March 10) in response to Malcolm Scott really should think before she claims the Catholic fiasco could've happened to anyone.
Yes, other religions and institutions, where special officers had power over children and others, were involved in exploitation, but the Catholic priests and hierarchy were the Olympic champions bar none by orders of magnitude.
Lesson 1 - All religions are just made up of corruptible humans. There are no special powers. Lesson 2 - The more religions claim to be god's representative, the more likely it seems they are to abuse their position of self-proclaimed power. Lesson 3 - All human power needs checks and balances. The Catholic church claims to be a power unto itself.
Unfortunately, I agree with Mary T. Bates, it is likely the Catholic church will recover, and then I suggest will probably invent some other impost on human rights somewhere on the planet. But the Catholic church has accumulated far too much wealth from the Alms plate, mostly donated by the poor, to just disappear. Yes, it is a timeless continuum, but of myths and magical stories about imagined supernatural beings.
Stories, which certainly appealed to the ancient, ignorant, superstitious, ill-informed thinkers of antiquity, and which still appeal to a certain kind of modern mind it seems.
Perhaps the Catholic church's greatest crime is its prohibition on the doubting of its authoritarian claims.
M. Fyfe, Riverside.
Thank You
AFTER fainting going up my driveway and hitting my face on the concrete on March 3, a gentleman named Steve came and helped me up, took me inside and called my daughter Vicki, and stayed with me until she came and took me to LGH emergency.
The doctors and nurses were wonderful and kind the five hours I was there.
Once again to Steve, a big thank you.