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- Read the article: Coast welcomes back direct flights from NZ
Great news but why for such a short time? Surely there must be many Kiwis living on the Sunshine Coast who would like to go to New Zealand for Christmas and vice versa?
We go to NZ every year in early November to escape the heat here and return late May. We go from Brisbane and in order to do this it involves a shuttle to an airport hotel, a night in a hotel and then the flight, which requires a relatively early book-in. With the Bruce Highway being so unreliable we feel this is the best way to ensure we catch our flight. How much easier it would be if we could fly from our Sunshine Coast Airport, which is 20 minutes from home.
Please extend the time, Air New Zealand or whoever makes these decisions.
Jenni Hesse, Pelican Waters
- Read the story: Paloma Paloma land sale ‘presents golden opportunity’
It is with a sigh of relief that I read of the demise of the ostentatious overdevelopment, an enclave for the super-privileged. Send these developers back to their breeding ground, the Gold Coast, where they belong.
The Sunshine Coast in general is still a fairly natural paradise apart from a few aberrations. Long may it last.
Michael Hancock, Noosa North Shore
- Read the story: Homelessness problem laid bare as campsite remains closed
I just read an article about Sunshine Coast Council locking homeless people out of a camping site and closing it for two years.
Closing down this campsite and removing toilets was the best thing council did. There was quite a few unsavoury people permanently living there at ratepayers’ expense.
It’s one thing to be homeless but another to foul up the area you are residing in. Good move, Sunshine Coast Council.
Debbie Munce, Belli Park
- Read the article: State plans to ban five dangerous dog breeds
Totally agree – and the sooner the better – before someone else gets killed in such a violent and horrible way.
Les J. Heil, Buderim
- Read the article: MPs unite and start petition for direct rail line
When will the voters of the Sunshine Council realise that the rail line will never be extended to Maroochydore while they continue to vote for the LNP, which has no power in a Labor state.
When the National Party promised in the 1990s to widen the main road through Gympie, I switched my vote, as did many others, and the job was done. Then to show my gratitude, I switched back to Labor. Die-hard voters don’t have to stay rusted to one party when it can’t deliver.
Alan Ward, Buderim
- Read the article: Club volunteer speaks out over issues with youths
I think these youths should be sent to a program where they will be taught some self-respect, respect of others and self-discipline.
I don’t think putting them in jail is the answer, that will only teach them to become worse criminals.
Kay Gaffney, Sippy Downs
- Read the article: Transport and sustainability ‘front and centre’
What a joke, the council saying they value the environment. Drive around and look at all the roadside clearing, thinning and hacking of once full and dense natural vegetation. The place now looks like a weed-infested industrial area.
Businesses that were camouflaged behind a screen of green now are sorely visible. All the shade cover that once supported Australian small mammals and suppressed weeds have now been thinned out and exposed to sunlight. The council are environmental vandals.
Derek Kanngiesser, Minyama
- Read the story: Ground control: airport’s ‘creative’ expansion
The short-term car parking situation at the airport is now outrageous, especially at school holidays or other busy times. Rental car firms have multiplied and occupy far too many places (which are often empty) close to the terminal and not available for essential public parking.
This situation has been exacerbated by a chaotic “booking” system for the long-term parks, and now with a person running around placing cones in vacant spaces in the short-term park to manage the overflow. This person also appears to be booking the short-term places to prevent other cars from parking, even when those cars have entered through the automatic boom gates and are searching for a vacant space.
The parking adjacent to the terminal is essential for people seeking access for a short period (say up to two hours) to assist departures and arrivals, and especially for those dropping off children flying unaccompanied or disabled or elderly passengers who require further assistance inside the terminal.
In virtually all other “international” and domestic airports, rental cars are stationed well away (in purpose-built long-term parking) from the terminals and accessed by bus or with walking directions provided by the staff in the terminal offices. In some cases the cars are delivered to the terminal by the hire car staff when the client arrives and certainly not kept in short-term parking adjacent to the terminal.
The situation at the Sunshine Coast Airport is at present hopeless, and evidenced last Saturday evening (June 24). Surely someone in authority can review the present situation and provide a workable solution that takes into account both the needs of the public and businesses. At present it is tilted the wrong way in favour of rental and parking businesses.
Ron Beattie, Caloundra
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