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THANK you for reporting on the woes on the M1.

At least the “moronic” placement of solar panels – where there instead should be a slipway on the M1 exit at Oxenford – has a chance of being rectified (‘Petitioners demand Oxenford M1 nightmare be solved’, GCB August 31).

That is because Premier Palaszczuk or Transport Minister Mark Bailey (no relation) live close by and might see the position for themselves.

Here below the border, us Mexicans in Kingscliff, NSW have repeatedly invited Premier Berejiklian, with no joy, to visit an even more ludicrous site selection for the largest regional referral hospital ever planned for the entire Tweed and Byron shires.

The hospital funding is greatly welcomed. However, sited next to tiny, hilly McPhail Ave, only metres to our surf-tourism beach, hemmed in geographically by beaches to the north and east, and Cudgen Creek to the south, the proposed site for the new Tweed Valley Hospital will be a traffic engineering nightmare.

All our carparks are already full with visitors on sunny days.

The original badly placed Southport Hospital location was nothing compared to the debacle that is our new Tweed Valley Hospital site.

Its future radius of approach traffic and parking will overlap the Pacific Ocean, bottleneck Kingscliff and make visitors from both states idle in traffic with overheating engines wondering what dipstick approved this site.

If they can just get past the entrance and few more metres over McPhail Ave, they can coast their conked-out cars in neutral down into the ocean – it’s so close!

At least you can eventually get somewhere on the M1.

Our tourists and doctors might have to row in to Kingscliff by boat.

ANN MAY, KINGSCLIFF

MR Ray Snook of Elanora makes a refreshingly intelligent point about the future of mass transport being the use of electric buses.

His is a welcome challenge to our civic leaders to drag themselves out of the paradigm that the only way to make our city a great liveable one is to layer it with more concrete and steel.

In view of Mr Snooks letter, we should all call upon the Mayor to give us an explanation as to why we should allow his light rail, ‘concrete n steel’ approach to transport to the airport, to be more favoured by the citizens of our city, than Mr Snook’s electric bus suggestion.

JIM WILSON, TALLEBUDGERA

MALCOLM who? Dispense with the eulogies. No legacy to speak of. A waste of time and space surely.

Let us now be bored senseless observing Morrison’s fumbling attempts at excuses for leadership.

DAVID HALL, COOMBABAH

A HOLIDAY resort where families gather for special events, long-term friendships are rekindled every year, a place where the public can visit and enjoy the surroundings, ie the beach, and the facilities the caravan park provides along with other social gatherings.

Why does a casino need to be on our waterways?

Once inside a casino, you could be anywhere on the Gold Coast, everyone is inside, no need for a view.

Why not put the casino near the airport? You can catch the tourists as they arrive, or better still, the high flyers can fly in, stay at the casino and then fly out.

But wait, I can hear the southerners screaming and yelling that they won’t want it as it will spoil their area.

Then why should we who live on the northern end of the Gold Coast suffer?

Southport and surrounding areas suffer enough with crime and other issues - and that is before the Games Village opens up to rental housing.

I say no to using good public land for private gain and say, as a long term resident of the Gold Coast, that we are fast losing our identity and freedom all in the name of greed.

KJB, SOUTHPORT