On route 782 you saved people "around 10 minutes travel time" (your words).

Such a magnanimous gesture keeping at least four times to catch a 782 bus into the city. 7.49am or 9.30am into the city and 4.10pm or 6.11pm out.

Older people like me have no problems walking around the city for at least six and a half hours. Oh yes, we can always catch the 780 as it is only a half-hour walk.

What could happen to an older or disabled person walking through a street and lane where there is absolutely no shelter or people but plenty of bushes.

Thank you for your lovely salutation at the end of the letter you sent me; "I hope you have a good weekend".

I am sure I will without any bus service then. How could other government departments be so stupid as to attempt to strive for independent living of disadvantaged groups and push for people to remain part of their community? How stupid of them to ignore the fact that you can save 10 minutes travelling or that the recent bus times were "not competitive with car travel times".

Anna Brunken, Launceston.

I READ the opinion piece from 2020 Vision (The Examiner, February 19) with interest. I support the move of the university to Inveresk but note that a consequence of that was the relocation of the automobile museum to Lindsay Street. The shift was disruptive of the museum's operations, but I accept, a necessary price of the greater good of the university move. But that move occurred last September. Is it too much to ask that the council get around deleting indications pointing to the old site and adding some usefully placed signage indicating its new location? A bit over 20 per cent of visitors to the old site were there because they just happened to see it or a sign to it. The new site is less prominent. The not-for-profit museum is a significant and highly visitor-appreciated part of our tourist attraction menu and deserving of the minimal council support that some accurate and prominent signage amounts to.

Peter Davson-Galle, Rosevale.

TO say I have been appalled at the recent events in Queensland is an understatement, to say the least.

To my mind, this disgusting intimidation and murder of your partner in life is cowardliness of major proportions. I have been happily married for 43 years and would no more dream of assaulting my wife than fly to the moon. I happen to adore her.

I was brought up in a house riddled with domestic violence, only in my case, it was my mother who was the perpetrator. Regardless of which partner, and it's predominantly men, for God's sake get a hold of yourself. Show me a couple who have lived in total harmony and I'll prove that one's been dead for years. There is absolutely no excuse to do the sort of things we all too often read about.

Personally, I think that any breach of an AVO should result in at least five years jail.

I also think that police need to have a special domestic violence unit with sweeping powers to help prevent women and their innocent children being treated like this.

Richard Hill, Newstead