Road to redemption
FINALLY, the markings on west-bound lanes from Morgan Street across the Peter Street roundabout have been changed back to what they used to be and both lanes now have the option of going straight ahead; drivers no longer have to zig-zag their way to a southern destination!
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Phew! For a while there I thought that the council staff member who I spoke to about the “left lane only” change at Peter Street might have been cleverer then I am, as he categorically debunked my concerns; ridiculed my observations, and laughed at my logic.
It's nice now to see that I was right and that he was a horse's ass.
Robert Walker
Wagga
Telco comes calling
THANK you for highlighting my concerns regarding the unsuitability for vision-impaired people of the free mobile phone that Telstra is supplying for the change to 3G.
As a result of the article, an official from Telstra contacted me and kindly offered a more suitable phone at no cost.
He also assured me that Telstra will be prepared to research the needs of vision-impaired customers with a view to possibly supplying a more user-friendly mobile phone.
Mary Kidson
Wagga
Tricks of the trade
IN REGARDS to the Ford Motor Company closing car manufacturing in Australia this month, the cause as we all know is “globalisation”.
Free trade, too many cheap imports, low traffic on inputs etc.
They don’t want us to make anything anymore – Australia’s gone.
Adam Smith
Griffith
Smell the roses, Joe
JOE Williams’s insult to our national anthem by trying to get others to sit through its playing is a step back in time for those who have fought for the rights of Aboriginal Australians.
The debates, resolutions and solutions have all been resolved.
You, however, are stirring a pot that has long ago been cooked and served.
The majority of us, black or white or brindle, respect each other.
Stop trying to start this ball rolling again.
Would you be playing football if “whites” didn’t give you the chance?
Would you be able to treat your injuries if it wasn’t for “whites”?
Stop trying to segregate this community again and pull your head in.
CJ Buckman
Wagga
Stop the propaganda
“BLIND Freddy’s” column report on extreme weather events in the DA is extremely one-sided and he makes it worse by stating “virtually all of them (the client scientists) agree that global warming leading to climate change is human-induced; now we are getting to see what they mean”.
It is easy enough to make such a sweeping, biased statement, but it is not true.
The fact is, there are thousands of scientists who do not agree with this theory.
Blind Freddy (what an appropriate name) is blind to the fact, and therefore omits that there has been an escalating increase in the number and severity of other natural disasters, such as volcano eruptions, tsunamis, out-of-control bushfires and earthquakes. These are not human-induced.
If all the natural disasters which occurred in the last 100 years were plotted on a graph, you would see a curved line with a strong upward trend.
We must not stick our heads in the sand and hope for the best – we must be prepared for the worst.