Freemans Drive danger
I HAVE resided in Beauty Point Road, Morisset, for the past 14 years and every time you do a right-hand turn into the street from Freemans Drive, when heading towards Cooranbong, you take your life in your hands.
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Other drivers travelling behind on Freemans Drive refuse to wait a few seconds and overtake on the inside near the present bus stop. They risk running into a telegraph pole opposite Beauty Point Road and now the new bus stop will be right in their path.
I have only twice seen police pull a driver over for dangerous driving but have witnessed dozens of near misses and cars going into a ditch near the telegraph pole – four wheel drives are the only ones who can safely negotiate it!
I would suggest that the road shoulder be widened and an even better idea would be a right-hand turning lane.
- Pamela Johnson, Morisset
Over to you, council
EARLY Sunday morning Mick Cronan was out trying to make a difference again. This time cutting down some of the metre-high mess along Dora Street that we mentioned last week (“Morisset mower man”, Lakes Mail, June 1).
Congratulations on a job well started.
But it is too big a job for a one man volunteer. It is a large area containing blackberry bushes, an open drain only partly fenced, and lots of Parramatta grass.
The trees and shrubs planted many years ago are now lost in the “jungle”.
Come on, council, there is no other town centre in the city that boasts such an ugly streetscape.
It is time to get in and improve the situation as has been done in every other town centre. Or is it another case of the south-western part of the city being ignored?
- John Quinlan, president, Sunshine Progress Association Inc.
Markets to continue
I WANT to comment about the recent letter regarding Toronto markets (“Toronto markets tageted”, Lakes Mail, May 25).
While it's true that Toronto Lions have run the Toronto markets for over 20 years, it's not true that they have been destroyed by bureaucracy. The markets continue to be a viable Lions project.
Toronto Lions have a long-standing policy of cancelling a market if the grounds are too wet for the parking of cars. Rain on the Friday and Saturday morning prior to the scheduled markets caused some concern.
Confusion was added to the concern due to receipt of a letter during the prior week seeking further information about our DA and a subsequent phone call with the council. It was decided to cancel the markets for that weekend.
Toronto Lions will continue to work together towards completion of a DA and the continued provision of market facilities to the people of Lake Macquarie.
We have again talked to the council, and the markets will continue at Lions Park Toronto under the current hire agreement.
- Keith Parry, Toronto Lions
Transport interchange
CARL Stevenson (“Why bother voting?”, Lakes Mail, June 1) may recall that prior to the six Hunter politicians recommending the Glendale interchange should be funded and completed, that in July 2011 the combined councils of the Hunter resolved it was the most important project in the Hunter.
Why, then, is a project endorsed by all Hunter councils as well as six politicians still studiously ignored by government, whether ALP or Coalition?Especially when one considers that with no public or political endorsement the same government finds it essential to waste billions of dollars destroying the Hunter transport system to release land to property speculators so that unaffordable housing for 75 per cent - or as they say “25 per cent affordable housing” – can be dumped onto the transport corridor.
- George Paris, Rathmines