Still no footpath
IT seems like every other property sale around here gets turned into 20 units, but we can't have a footpath or adequate street lighting. I have raised this issue with the mayor: 'Why can't we have a footpath in Excelsior Parade?'
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There is no concern for public safety in my street but we can have a 'Trampoline Centre of Excellence'. What next, a floating Tiddlywink arena?
- John Lear, Toronto
More on lake seal
REGARDING the story on Kevin McCarthy seeing the seal in Lake Macquarie (‘Seal steals show on the lake’, Lakes Mail, July 12). We first saw the seal in the lake about five years ago and since then have seen him regularly on and around Pulbah Island. He has always been seen alone and has got quite big since we first saw him (or her).
- Nicky Burgess, Wangi Wangi
Enough littering already
I'M a resident of Balcolyn and I use the Yarrawonga Park Road, at Yarrawonga Park, to turn right onto Fishery Point Road, to go to Bonnells Bay shops or into Morisset.
On many occasions, for many years now, not far up from the turn into Yarrawonga Park Road, there seems to be an invisible sign that can only be seen by litterbugs. I'm sure it says: ‘Dump your rubbish along here!’
I’m one of many residents who are sick and tired of seeing rubbish strewn along this stretch of road. It can be anything from fast-food restaurant packaging, beer cartons and bottles, and Coke cans, to papers and, one time, rolled up carpet.
But as I headed out today, as I approached the intersection, I could see a pile of something. As I got closer I realised it was long, thin boxes and packing which, I suspect, was thrown off the back of a ute, or similar vehicle.
Someone was too lazy to dispose of it in the appropriate way. It’s about time those in our community think twice before dumping or throwing their rubbish along our roads.
Is it too much to ask to wait until you get home and dispose of this litter in your own garbage bin?
- Jenny Howard, Balcolyn
Scheme needs overhaul
SOME months ago I wrote to the Minister for Police pointing out that Neighbourhood Watch meetings had become local gossip meetings.
I was once chairman of Wangi Wangi Neighbourhood Watch, but I left because I found it ineffective and outdated.
The Neighbourhood Watch signs in the main have been covered in graffiti or vandalised, and are out of fashion.
You’d need to employ an advertising agency to make the whole thing more attractive and viable.
This a time when vicious crime seems to be escalating, and the police appear to be losing the battle. Everyone is sick of the rising rate of crime, especially violent crime.
Attacks on women and others by gangs who apparently do it for sport must be tackled with severe penalties.
The whole Neighborhood Watch scheme needs to be overhauled and modernised, with new, more appealing roadside signs, and updated published information.
- David T Edwards, Wangi Wangi
Disgusted by state of park
WE are disgusted at the state of Rathmines Park behind the Scout hall. It appears that it is open slather for hoons on bikes and in cars to rip up the grassed areas with no thought for other park users. This action takes place on the roads and in the park most nights of the week.
- Names withheld, Rathmines
What would Gough think?
I THINK Gough Whitlam must be turning in his grave to see what has become of his protégé, Mark Latham. To think of the time the great man wasted on him.
- Peter C Jones, Rathmines