Chair lift

REGARDING the chair lift story (TC, 1/7). It is a little confusing. It talks about going down the range in a chair lift from the Quarry Gardens.

If you start at the quarry than there are two ways down the range, over Bridge St and down though Redwood Park to the picnic area at the start of Gatton Creek, or through the quarry and Jubilee Park to Little Oaky Creek Rd.

They both would be useful as people could walk down the tracks, than take the cable car back up the hill to their cars.

Mountain bike riders would especially be happy, if they could carry their bikes up to the start of the tracks in Jubilee Park.

While on the chair lift you would get a different perspective of the park’s trees, and a bit of a thrill riding above them.

As far as views down the Lockyer Valley go, neither of these parks face the right direction. If there were no hills, for every three metres in height, you can see another 10 kilometres, so once you go over the lip of the range, what view you had, quickly disappears.

There are some some wonderful views around Prince Henry Drive, these lookouts could be further promoted. It’s a pity that the views from the nearby Mt Lofty have been overgrown.

Some people have said they would like to go from Picnic Point to Tabletop, in a cable car, but Tabletop has become an indigenous church, and it rightfully needs to be treated with respect.

Other ideas for inclusion in the quarry gardens have been, a giant rope swing eg Goodwill Bridge, rock climbing and abseiling eg Kangaroo Point, a luge ride and zip ride eg Mt Coot-tha, or a lookout wheel eg Southbank.

Probably the best place for a cable car or zip line would be from Preston Lookout to Mt Campbell over Hellhole Creek, but the Lockyer Council would have to have similar ideas as our Council, as elections draw closer, anything is possible.

Mt Campbell would have some terrific 360 degree views. It is a similar height to Picnic Point.

So one day we might have have chair lift through Jubilee Park, a luge and giant swing in the Quarry Gardens, a zip line through Redwood Park, a cable car with a bungy jump at Mount Campbell, and a giant wheel and restaurant on Mt Kynoch. If that happens we might need more motels.

Tourism and tourist are words, in my opinion, that are overused when speaking about attractions. If you can’t induce people from the Toowoomba district to use an attraction, you got bucklies of getting interstate visitors to use it. Nobody likes being called a tourist, we are all people first.

— J. DAVIDSON, Glenvale