I am also wheelchair bound living with cerebral palsy.

I have been a resident of the Newnham area for some 20 plus years.

None of the footpaths are completely flat making it somewhat unsafe to travel on fully.

There are times where you just can't travel safely on the footpaths so you ride your chair as close to the gutter or ride in the bike lane.

Police have indeed stopped me as well for not riding on the footpaths, but it's too unsafe not to. The wider community just thinks that people with disabilities have in-home services and services should be responsible for all of our needs.

We who live with disabilities have lives outside of care - we too like to get out and about. We have a life just like the rest of the locals. With numerous falls from my chairs I almost never go alone in case of a fall happening.

One way to fix the issue I say is to bring back wheelchair licenses and registration like you had when I was a teen before it faded out. At least we can legally ride on the road (bike lane) where it's flatter and safer for everyone who regularly tries to navigate unsafe footpaths as a wheelchair user.

MY thanks to Mr Albanese for his generous offer of a $300 vaccination bounty identifying a hesitant percentage of the population tempted to step up with arms bared and hands out ready to grasp the taxpayer cash inducement.

As they have valued their, and other Australians' lives at a lowly $300, this is an ideal opportunity to dismiss the idea in order to give the national gene pool a much needed flush out.

REGULAR viewers of the free to air version of Sky News Australia will have noticed this service disappeared from Tasmanian screens from the start of August.

This has come about because of a new broadcast deal between regional telecaster Win and Nine Entertainment which has cut our state out of the loop. This situation has resulted in Tassie viewers being forced to pay for a Foxtel service if they wish to access Sky News with some of the country's best journalists and presenters.

Sky has been free to air here for the past three years. Ironically the new broadcast deal for Sky means all regions in Australia outside capital cities will receive their service free to air.

As an example, viewers in Tamworth NSW with a population of around 40,000 get Sky while all of our island state of over half a million is again left off the television map. Perhaps our members of parliament could pursue this and restore Sky News to us down under.

I REFER to G Long regarding the Riverside and Trevallyn bus services (The Examiner, August 6).

It does seem somewhat unfortunate that services to the top of Trevallyn have been removed, but one must take into account the usage for the service.

State Growth data (Consultation Report, 2019) demonstrates that only around two to three people per day were using the bus on the route that was removed.

Considering public transport in Tasmania is a public funded and government contracted operation, it would seem unwise to be wasting public money on services that aren't being used.

One must also remember that Mowbray and Kings Meadows have had their service frequency increased to every 10-15 minutes all day, five days per week.

This means the services are very competitive with car travel to the city and provide continuous service past the Launceston General Hospital.

It's a pure statement of fact that these two suburbs and the CBD are where the in-demand services are.

Not in the narrow back streets of Trevallyn or the small Riverside shopping centre.

I AM not sure why people don't know to put their headlights on during the day when it is foggy or raining.

Driving through thick fog on Wednesday morning I encountered several cars appearing like ghosts out of the fog without any lights on.

It could have caused a bad accident.

Please put your lights on during the day, when the weather conditions are bad.

I'm sure it doesn't use any more petrol or battery while you are driving and it could save your life.

IT WAS interesting to see the deferred response from the Launceston City Council regarding lockers to be made available to our homeless citizens.

When will a decision be made regarding this situation?

I, like many folk work or have worked in production environments, when a problem develops you set about to solve the problem and fix it.

Here the LCC appears to have a problem so please set about, make a decision and fix it. LCC, there are homeless folk out there that need you to do your job.