Pandering

Quality roads needed

THE Liberals’ announcement for a duallane road study for Sorell seems to be Midland Highway part 2. The four lanes promised was a farce, there is at best three lanes with a wire fence. They also only had trees and fences to move, not to mention houses in the Mangalore area that were acquired and are still being destroyed by vandals. We need more infrastructure but anyone can build a road, it’s well engineered roads everyone is seeking. Pick any DMR road and put it up against the current roads and there is the answer, one is built for profit and one for community needs. REBECCA White and the Labor Party pandering to the vocal minority on the socalled pokie reforms without doing their own “due diligence”. Not even a credible State Opposition and they want to govern? Woe betide Tasmania if the present mob ever gets the chance. We deserve lots better.

Spend and enjoy

RETIREES are spending savings or super too fast and are in danger of not having enough income later ( Sunday Tasmanian, December 3)? While this may apply to some, those of us who receive Centrelink aged pensions that have been reduced since January because of a much harsher assets test will in fact get more income the

Enhance our CBD

AFTER reading that Sao Paulo, a city of 11 million in Brazil, had banned all advertising amidst cries of job losses etc and that the ban came into force with no apparent detrimental effects but a more pleasing, uncluttered aspect ( TasWeekend, December 16), I thought about the hullabaloo about the red awnings of a few years ago and wondered why, on the edge of the Hobart CBD, we tolerate without any comment the ugly facade of a pharmaceutical supermarket in Murray St, which to me would be more suited among the car yards of the outer suburbs if at all. It does not enhance our CBD streetscape at all.