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Do you have an opinion to share? Submit a Letter to the Editor at Sunshine Coast News via news@sunshinecoastnews.com.au. You must include your name and suburb for accountability, credibility and transparency. Preference will be give to letters of 100 words or less.

Surely there is a local civil contractor with heavy excavation capability to offer equipment and time to safely remove the remains during a week, two hours each side of low tide, with what is recovered delivered to the closest metal recycler.

Now there is an idea.

Chris Marriott, Tewantin

Why couldn’t council build a walking or floating walkway, path or jetty over it and let nature continue?

It’s been there for years and all of a sudden it’s a problem?

It’s a part of Coast history.

Yanni, Kenilworth

The pontoon at La Balsa boat ramp that the new Mooloolaba ferry is intending to use is already very busy with recreational vessels being launched or recovered.

At weekends it is often in constant use, so where is the ferry going to land?

If the council intends this to be a permanent arrangement, then either a purpose-built landing site or an extension to the existing pontoon needs to be built and the operator charged accordingly.

Roger Bayzand, Minyama

Is this an opportunity for developers to increase profits with a higher density?

What is affordable today in the scheme of things? Getting twice as many units should be half the price, or is it double the profits?

Should be some control from council over pricing.

Richard Locke, Eumundi

The Sunshine Coast is a 19th century car-centric region which has paid less than lip service to making our city more walkable and accessible with personal transport.

What many of the more advanced European cities are doing is adopting what they call ’15-minute cities’, which is to say that ‘city dwellers should be able to access most of their basic needs within a 15-minute walk or cycle’.

We should do the same. Car-centric cities are completely hostile to walking and cycling and community gatherings. They are also noisy, polluting and dangerous.

Who amongst us would have our children cycling home from school in Maroochydore? Answer. No one.

Mark Del, Maroochydore

Time will tell whether Peter Cox’s fears of the Sunshine Coast returning to the blue-rinse era now the Liberal National Party has regained all the seats here.

Hopefully, for all our sakes, they will indeed deliver and actually follow through on all their promises and improve on what is a fantastic place to live. Or will we be considered a safe LNP region and left to languish once again?

Many newcomers may not be aware of the history of when the LNP last held all the region’s seats. Peter, and backed by his experience in local government, pointed out how little was achieved from 2012 to 2015 by the representation of the six LNP MPs.

As pointed out by another letter writer, Peter Baulch, Labor made significant promises in Ninderry, not the least being advancing the upgrades of the Sunshine Motorway at Coolum, an area of particular interest since we travel there frequently. Will Dan Purdie deliver on this much needed infrastructure and claim all the glory for the projects initiated by the Labor government?

Robyn Deane, Nambour

What will be interesting is to see how they react to Jetstar now flying year-round.

And will there be a price war?

TJ, Mooloolaba

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