While I don’t have any objection to people riding around the countryside, I am horrified and alarmed that $10 million is going to be spent on such a recreation facility for the rail trail between Ladysmith and Wagga.
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If you look at the path around the lake for walkers and riders it is used basically all the time, but the number of people that use it over the days and even year for that matter would only represent a very, very small percentage of Wagga’s population.
Therefore, to spend $10 million on what will be a recreational area for a very, very small percentage of Wagga’s population is ludicrous. Even if it is sold well and gets buses of visitors from around the region and the state, it will still only represent very small numbers in relation to population figures.
As for the farmers who are going to have to wear the brunt of looking after the effects of traffic through this trail, which is going to be nigh on impossible, is preposterous.
To meet the government’s laws on biosecurity does that mean the farmer is going to be on-hand every time someone steps onto his property – when does he get his farm work done? The governments of the day have spent millions and millions of dollars over the years to see that Australia has clean land and subsequently clean food.
One of the instances you have to look at is that the government has very strict rules about what is brought into the country in the way of food and allied matter and they have many thousands of officers at airports around the country to see that these rules are adhered to. What happens to the farmer’s livestock particularly through breeding season using those paddocks?
I would like to challenge the organisers of this project and supporters how would you feel if you were the farmer whose land someone was going to ride or walk through? How would you feel if people walking through left rubbish along the way through the paddocks or didn’t have clean shoes or boots?
What measures would you have to put in place to meet the government’s biosecurity policy on your property at any time of day or night?
Ronda Lampe, Wagga
No faith in legal system
Licensed gun owner threatens armed burglar with firearm has guns taken off him, and rightly so. The poor little burglar was probably traumatised by the nasty man with the gun, and if I was him, I would go to one of those God-awful, no-win, no-pay lawyers who seem to advertise more often than those other rip-off merchants selling funeral plans! No doubt they could lodge a lawsuit claiming his human rights had been violated, or some similar twaddle.
There was also another case reported last week where a police officer arrested a woman, with numerous bail breaches, who after abusing the magistrate walked straight out of court.
I sincerely hope that officer was disciplined, or even charged with wasting police time, when he could have been out serving the community better by say, fining motorists and raising the money our wasteful politicians so desperately need, or maybe he should have arrested the magistrate for dereliction of duty.
We have all seen recently how thin-skinned our judicial officers are so please accept my apology for the crack above, it was in no way intended to imply that the public may have lost faith in our legal system. No point stating the obvious really.