On Smithfield bypass
The best fix for the Smithfield roundabout is north-south overpasses. The ALP’s bypass is the worst fix. And now the LNP wants to do the same as Labor (CP 19/7). The ALP and LNP should just merge, they’re nearly identical anyway. Woz, Parramatta Park Great news regarding Smithfield bypass, but what about the far worse bottleneck from Barron River Bridge to town. Crawls in mornings. Southside getting more funding again and traffic flows pretty well down there already. Angi, Cairns City from the game. Rugby league is the number one sport in Cairns and we don’t even have a proper facility for it. Bob, Bungalow Re: Roz Walden, director of CAFNEC (CP, 19/7). Your first two sentences were unsubstantiated opinions. The third one was incorrect. The original dredging proposal was designed by a government department that put in more relevant work by more qualified people than all the studies done on the Reef by all the green groups so far. It was the politicians who overrode this study, to appease a minority group, so they could remain in office. Gary, Kamerunga I agree with David Clapham (19/7). Actually, electricity prices in Queensland rose 43 per cent under Tim Nicholls’ LNP. It’s forecast to rise less than 4 per cent under the Palaszczuk Labor government. Local, Cairns Holly, Freshwater (19/7). I’m not saying Woolies aren’t doing the right thing banning plastic bags, but everybody will now buy plastic rubbish bags which are worse for the environment than shopping bags. Wendy, Innisfail Every other day of the week I can pick up a shopping bag of litter along just a 200m section of Hoare St. If everyone in Cairns, who really cares about our Reef and environment did this, what a really beautiful place it would be. Just do it and show you care. Greg, Manunda Although we have United selling much cheaper fuel, you still see motorists filling up elsewhere. One does have to seriously question their ability to function correctly. Peter, Gordonvale Plenty of range road users would happily pay a toll to use a tunnel between Cairns and the Tablelands. But it needs to be built at Cairns, not at Smithfield. Higgs, Tolga Developers and those responsible for signing off on environment impact statements should be held responsible for wallabies creating havoc on our Northern Beaches, not ratepayers. Rex, Edmonton