SUBMITTING LETTERS
IN December 2016 the Qld Police Commissioner introduced the new speed camera trailers. He said and it’s important that I quote, “The speed camera trailers were designed to assist in areas where it is unsafe to use traditional speed camera devices. The new trailers will enable police to target high end speeding motorists in high risk zones which are unsafe for officer deployment such as specific areas on motorways, roadwork sites or in school zones. The trailers will not replace our current speed detection methods of high visibility patrols, mobile speed camera deployments or fixed camera systems.”
I’m not particularly concerned about the use of speed camera equipment but there seems to be something terribly wrong with the direction as set down by the Commissioner and the actual deployment of the speed camera trailers. Take for example the 14 new concrete pads on the M1. Nice level pads, behind Armco railing, safe for the deployment of police officers but used by unmanned trailers. The camera sites along the M1 are well known, a marked mobile speed camera one day and an unmanned trailer the next.
It would appear that the traffic
police are pinning all their flags to electronic speed detection equipment as their primary method of traffic enforcement. How this prevents low speed rear end collisions on the M1 is puzzling. Even the police union has called for an end to the unmanned equipment.
Was the Commissioner a little bit naughty with the his introduction of the unmanned trailers or are our traffic police playing a bit loose with his directions? Food for thought.
GRAEME THOMPSON, REEDY CREEK
I WRITE regarding the redundant church site at Coolangatta.
A developer submitted an application when the planning committee was in recess. The Mayor, Councillor Caldwell (division 3, not even from our area), the CEO and the Director of Planning and Environment approved the application
despite 55 objections.
Our councillor tabled our concerns but was ignored. The Mayor stated: “At all times we must focus on the goal of putting the community’s best interests first”.
The building height will be 4 storeys high with recreation area on the roof within an area that has been limited to 3 storeys for years.
There are 29 car spaces for residents and 3 for visitors. Residents with more than 1 vehicle will be parking in the Council car park while parking in Coolangatta is in short supply.
So much for putting the community’s best interests first.
IAN FINDLEY, COOLANGATTA
THE ridiculous Berlin Wall was built to separate two different political views.
Today we have a wall built in Australia, it is not made of bricks and mortar, but is made of censorship
and political correctness. No longer are Australians even able to scale this wall. Firearms are not needed to shoot us down, all that is needed is to call us racists, and then we are forced to retreat feeling like cowards, abandoned by our own Government.
KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS
THERE are approximately 26 million males, females and transsexuals in Australia. 16 million how to vote postal votes were sent out for the Yes and No vote. Of that 16 million 4 million did not vote, approximately 7.5 million voted Yes and approximately 4.5 million voted No, so my maths tells me that the majority of Australians did not vote Yes to SSM marriage!
ANGELO, BIGGERA WATERS
SURELY it is the GCCC “risking lives” with their primitive destruction of our lake sanctuary for a car park, rather than those trying to save it. Council’s sanitised line is sickening residents who can’t stomach euthanasia of their native wildlife. Rather than blame protectors, why doesn’t Cr. Baildon take some responsibility for this appalling carnage?
CHRIS, SURFERS PARADISE