Gridlock solution clear

Reconsider naming

PREMIER Will Hodgman is against dual naming, a policy that reinstalls original Aboriginal names for geographic features alongside European names. Mr Hodgman thereby stopped any review of names of inappropriately bridges and streets.

In 1829, beneath the foothills of Ben Lomond, a group of Aboriginal men, women and children were at their village. They lit a campfire. John Batman said: “we came to a number of huts … we proceeded until we saw some smoke at a distance. I immediately ordered the men to lay down; we could hear the natives conversing distinctly, we then crept into a thick scrub and waited there until after sunset … At about 11pm, the men were drawn up on my right by my orders intending to rush upon them, before they could arise from the ground … Accidentally, a musket went off and the natives were running away into the thick scrub, when I ordered the men to fire.

“We only captured that night one woman and a male child two years old … next morning we found one man very badly wounded in the ankle and knee with 10 buckshot in his body … there were a READER Howard Hughes has pointed out the critical traffic problem and its solution (Letters, February 3). This solution was pointed out at least 15 years ago and remains the top solution. You don’t have to be a crack road management expert: To fix the most pressing gridlock we don’t need another lane on the Southern Outlet to cause even more gridlock in Macquarie and Davey Streets. What is urgently needed is a road from Southern Outlet through South Hobart and on to the Northern suburbs. Congestion near the Fountain roundabout would be cut drastically. While the traffic planners are at it, we urgently need a slip lane at the roundabout leading to the airport. This would avoid delays of up to an hour from traffic backed up past Cambridge shopping park and we might even be able to avoid missing a flight. The fancy bits like underground bus malls look like icing on the cake in comparison to these two problems.