Invermay Traffic Plan
I AM with City of Launceston mayor Albert van Zetten, we should wait to consider installing another intersection on Goderich Street until after the traffic light system has been updated, which will allow synchronisation of the signals in a more real-time to see what effect that has. Otherwise, we won't know if the change has helped or hindered traffic flow.
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As for changing the roundabout into traffic lights at Invermay Road-Lindsay Street, that can't come soon enough.
Councillor Jim Cox's (even with more than 20 years involvement with the traffic industry) assertion that roundabouts are safer than traffic lights doesn't seem right to me. Traffic lights give clear red-stop, green-go signals.
All traffic and pedestrians get a fair go.
Driving along the Brooker Highway is so much better now that there are traffic lights at the Derwent Park (Bunnings) intersection.
Edwina Brown, Launceston.
Terrible Prison Idea
BUILDING a maximum-security prison within the town boundary of Westbury is a terrible idea from many perspectives.
Apart from being a highly visible blot on the landscape as you drive along the main highway, it is situated in an industrial estate containing agricultural processing such as animal blood products and opium poppies with machinery and trucks coming and going 24/7.
So prisoners don't deserve any consideration for physical or mental health?
In Richard Mack's enthusiastic endorsement for prisons as lovely places, he fails to mention that Castlemaine, like Beechworth in Victoria has a history of prisons being in the centre of town, so when the old ones were replaced they were built safely four kilometres out of town.
The Westbury prison is two kilometres.
Castlemaine has a population twice that of Deloraine so it can easily absorb the impact of its low to medium-security prison and provide the services required.
Westbury doesn't even have a bank or any of the amenities required.
It is easy for Mark Sheldon to say that in WA houses are built right up to prisons.
In the better suburbs do you think?
Would he choose to live next to one?
The Westbury residents choose not to.
It is unfair of Deloraine residents to promote the prison as a good idea when they are at a safe distance.
Westbury needs all the support within the Meander Valley that they can get.
Pauline Cole, Deloraine.
Launceston Housing
ERROL Stewart has been good to Launceston financing innovative design and in particular, making the river frontage amenable and attractive. Equally, Launceston has been good to Mr Stewart.
I am not opposed to his Kings Wharf Towers plan but I will issue him this challenge.
As a person of means and vision who has made good, would he consider a development that would provide housing for younger Tasmanians and the less well off?
Sometimes the best legacy is being remembered for what you gave and not what you made.
Tony Newport, Hillwood.
Loutish Behaviour
TO the City of Launceston council and Tasmania Police, as a visitor to Launceston this last weekend I was disgusted and outraged at the number of morons that are allowed to congregate in the Myer car park. A group of us, which included an international ambassador and delegates from international tourism had chosen to dine at a CBD restaurant, and when parking our car in the Myer car park we had to endure both racial and verbal abuse.
When discussing this with the restaurant owner he was extremely apologetic and advised that his staff are regularly exposed to both racial and verbal abuse, and in some instances, female staff have had their cars violently shaken as that try to leave.
If Launceston is serious about tourism and embracing international tourists it would look seriously at removing these offenders.
Surely regular police patrols that included vehicle inspections, RBT and drug sniffer dogs would move these offenders on quickly and allow both locals and tourists the ability to park their vehicles and enjoy the many pubs and restaurants within the CBD.
David Coombes, Glenorchy.
Aged Care Hearings
THE royal commission hearings in Hobart into aged care have left us in no doubt that there are serious misgivings in several aged care facilities due to so-called cost-cutting measures.
The harrowing stories revealed at the commission are nothing short of despicable and those nursing homes that have been named so far need to be held to account with appropriate action taken to ensure the level of care to patrons never sinks to that level again. Remember, all those that have allowed this to happen may at some stage in their lives need to be cared for in an aged care facility, and I'm sure they would not like the shoe to be on the other foot.
Robert Lee, Summerhill.
Same Sex Marriage
TO senators Helen Polley, Eric Abetz and all the other Tasmanian pollies who opposed this legislation two years on, the sky has not fallen in yet.
Michael Robinson, Beauty Point.
Drought Relief Funding
TO paraphrase former Prime Minister Paul Keating, if governments have vast amounts of money for particular projects, there is a tendency for large wastage.
With billions of dollars apparently taken from education to fund drought relief, what controls and measures have the federal government taken to deter exploitation at the expense of genuine potential recipients?