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• Read the article: Safety first: e-scooter company prepares for competition
I fully agree that e-scooter parking hubs are the only way to go after visiting Brisbane and seeing scooters littered everywhere. Riders simply dump them, obstructing footpaths – the elderly have to walk around them and even seniors on mobility scooters have to go onto the road to get past them. This is not what the Coast needs.
Also, the amount of drunks riding them at night is just asking for trouble. We need a responsible local operator that accepts responsibility and shows a duty of care, not an overseas company that just places scooters everywhere. Someone will get killed.
David Allinson, Mooloolah Valley
• Read the article: Revised plans for next stage of development revealed
The biggest problem in Bli Bli is the increasing traffic, as all traffic in the area is directed through the shops over the bridge. Before any new development a Bli Bli bypass road must be constructed to ease any congestion. To slow the speed limit does not stop the congestion.
Flooding has also always been a problem where they want this development.
I have been a resident of Bli Bli since 1984. It used to be a peaceful suburb, now this place is overpopulated. Either stop this development or get a new bypass road constructed before adding more people. The greedy developers just will not let this pass as they have to much money already invested.
Neville Walters, Bli Bli
• Read the article: See the video: ‘Appalling’ graffiti cut into iconic landmark
Agreed, the vandalism at the base of the mountain with immeasurable cultural value is disgusting, pathetic and shows a gaping lack of respect. Considering it references Jesus, you should expect the individual or individuals responsible to have some morals. Obviously not.
Andrew Maclean
• Read the article: Towns earmarked for electric car chargers
Your recent article on the installation of four EV charging stations on the Sunshine Coast states that these will be installed in Yandina, Maroochydore, Palmview and Coochin Creek. Apparently Coochin Creek has a population of 89. It is also not easily accessible, being well off the main roads. Surely this is not the best place for one of a total of only four chargers. Who made this decision?
Pauline Hurrey, Palmwoods
• Read the article: MPs unite and start petition for direct rail line
I just can’t understand the mentality of these people that we put in charge of our affairs when elected. Just look at other countries and what they doing regarding public transport and moving people around, instead of spending millions of dollars paying someone for a project.
Just put the money towards what has to be done and do it. It is a necessity so don’t waste money paying agencies for their opinions. We already know what we need to do, just do it.
Antonio Segreto, Pacific Paradise
For God’s sake, let’s be impartial and drop the politics here. The whole concept from the very beginning was to develop Maroochydore as the centre (or CBD) for the Sunshine Coast.
All parties agreed that the lack of public transport was delaying the growth of this area. It was genuinely agreed, to the point of virtually unanimous, that the lack of public transport was retarding the growth of this area, particularly access to the CBD. Our roads are ridiculously congested and should have been upgraded 30 years ago. Buses add to the problem, not address the situation, compounding this catastrophic debacle.
It’s not like it’s just a good idea, it is absolutely imperative that we have this rail extension and have it now. Just do what you promised. From the start it was bleeding obvious that we already have a transportation disaster here on the Coast.
I am 70 years old and struggling to drive in this traffic chaos. I just want to get rid of my car and rely on public transport. But how can I? It’s disgraceful and dangerous. No community can successfully function anywhere without a public transport system that caters for the heartbeat of the city.
I have been here for almost 20 years but the lies and delays still keep on coming. It’s terrifying and dangerous out there on the roads, especially for us older folks – everyone battling to get in the same space on the road at the same time. Of course, let’s not even mention the impossibility of bloody parking.
Do what you have promised for years and let our region develop into its full potential. That’s why you were voted in. (I seriously doubt that you will be again, and do hope that you won’t be.)
I, and thousands of others it appears, want to get rid of our cars and use public transport, but how can we when the trains are nowhere near the Maroochydore hub? Fix it now. Do your jobs, this is what you were voted in for, or let someone who can do it.
Do it now. It’s dangerously disgraceful.
Lindsay Terrens
Just wanted to mention the pointless new pedestrian crossing between Tay and Bulcock streets. A great fanfare was made by council and the local councillor on the need for it, and now it has finally arrived.
It will be two years before it can be used due to a footpath closure caused by building construction, which has not started yet. Council would have given permission for the construction company to close off the footpath during the building stage. Clearly one bit of council is not aware of others’ plans. Not very professional.
Rob Mogensen, Caloundra
The government went to incredible time, trouble and expense to ensure that every child had the opportunity to perform economically and satisfy themselves. The vast majority of Australian society would not respond. They would not make a satisfactory effort.
Every product and structure in Australia is singularly due to expertise, which is a product of outstanding academic achievement. Industry in the world did not make any product or structure with manual or clerical work. Without this expertise, we would be living like a primitive native.
An indication of the nature of expertise is apparent in the academic journals such as the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Research or Process Biochemistry. However, this information is not expertise itself. It is merely know-how. An effort to develop expertise was crucial to the performance of industry and to the production of products or structures.
Grahame N. E. Bell, Alexandra Headland
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