Cable Car in the Gorge
PLEASE look at the details of the cable car proposal closely before you draw an opinion.
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When you see the details you will realise the design will have an outrageous negative impact on a valued and appreciated natural asset.
If you need authentic reliable opinions check out TripAdvisor.
It has over 5000 ratings from visitors from all over the world highlighting how they valued visiting such a beautiful untouched environment so close to the city.
No-one mentioned it needed a cable car.
Hands off the Gorge.
We don't need an enormous man-made structure strangling this majestic space.
Alison Hugo, Trevallyn.
Gondola Proposal
THE proposal to build a gondola which would dominate the First Basin area of Cataract Gorge will have come as a very unwelcome surprise to most Launcestonians.
Launceston is fortunate indeed that citizens of long ago had the foresight to establish the unique First Basin area as a place for local families to spend leisure time with their families in a quiet, restful and beautiful garden setting within walking distance of the city centre.
Generations of Launceston children have happy memories of picnicking and playing games on the lawns and swimming in the Basin or the pool.
The local council has wisely kept commercial enterprise out of this wonderful area (with one unpopular exception) and locals are rarely if ever heard to complain about that lack.
We are well aware that the local aldermen have not formally discussed the matter in council and I hope that when they do, they will have the sense to take any possible action to stop the gondola in its tracks and as soon as possible.
This must be one of those unusual cases where local people are unanimous in their opinion of a proposed development.
If it comes before council then it should be an easy decision for them to make.
Roy and Louise Skabo, Trevallyn.
Anti-vaccination opinion
So pleasing to see Editor Courtney Greisbach's opinion piece (The Sunday Examiner, June 30) recounting her encounter with an anti-vaccination looney.
I really do wonder how the minds of such people work, but it seems deep suspicion and ignorance of science plays a role.
From ignorance comes a paranoid suspicion and finally an unmovable denial of reality.
Mark Fyfe, Launceston.
Gallery Closures
THE article in (The Examiner, June 22) advising that the colonial and federation galleries at QVMAG are to be shut for a year is simply another example of the council's disastrous management of QVMAG over a number of years.
The council spent millions of ratepayer dollars to move all the art from the Royal Park site to Inveresk, and then they spent a few million more to move it all back again.
Now they want to close the two galleries that are most appealing to visitors to Launceston. The suggestion that those visitors can look at the art online is a joke.
Those same visitors could save a lot of money by visiting Launceston online instead of actually coming here (and it would also reduce the need for parking in the CBD.
Stuart Roberts, Newstead.
Planning Juxtaposition
WITH all regional Tasmanian councils with a small population base, to provide services to their constituents is an ever-increasing struggle. Glamorgan Spring Bay Council, for instance, has just released increases in the rate base for the municipality which substantially exceeds the Consumer Price Index.
The council have borrowed heavily for infrastructure, which primarily benefits Tassal, and the Solis Golf Course, which council have decided to revive after being abandoned by the original private developer.
In this instance, the council have become the developer and Planning Authority, instead of being the planning authority only, in a desperate attempt to stimulate economic growth within the municipality.
As the Development Application for Tassal's Okehampton Bay proceeded with indecent haste, the dam which is to supply water to the Solis and Tassal developments, have until recently, not received the appropriate approvals by relevant governmental authorities.
When council becomes developer and planning authority, with increased borrowings/debt and inherent risk, effectively subsidising private enterprise, the municipal constituents are possibly left to pay a very high price indeed?
Kenneth Gregson, Swansea.
What next?
POTENTIAL patients in the Launceston and Hobart hospitals, this could happen to you. The NWRH and the people of Braddon have once again been betrayed by no less than four fearless local politicians and the Health Minister. It is not OK and anyone who knows the present rehab section must be appalled. Piece by piece this wonderful regional hospital is being stripped. Soon we will be left with only a helipad and car park. Stop this rot.
Marilyn Quirk, Heybridge.
*This letter was published under the incorrect name on July 4.