Turning confusion at roundabouts

Bouquets to the Warragul library for providing an inclusive space for its diverse network of users. But bricks to its ‘anti-quietness’ policy and seeming reluctance to remind library users, through appropriate signage, that designated reading areas are not suitable places for mobile phone conversations. The library needs basic standards of etiquette to guide a small but disruptive minority who negatively impact on the user experience of the quiet majority. Bricks to the man who keeps making personal comments while I am out on my morning walk. I walk to improve my health, not to attract unwanted attention from the like of men who are old enough to know better. Please show some respect and refrain from saying inapproprivate things. Don’t be that man. No one likes him very much at the moment. Bouquets to thBe sitsafyf.our All submissions must include a full name and address and daytime contact number,

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www.thegazette.com.au or our mobile phone: 0458 923 429. hot day. Over the past six years they have provided helpful and enthusiastic customer service while having to work within government guidelines. Bouquets to Zac from Barry Plant Real Estate for supplying cold bottles of water for patrons in the Woolworths complex last Wednesday. A very kind gesture on a very

Bricks to real estate agents who don’t remove their auction or for sale boards. After two phone calls requesting a “For Auction” board to be removed or amended, they have not attended to this. The advertised auction was held in July 2015. Even if the property is still for sale, this form of advertising is not productive and certainly impinges on our picturesque rural environment.

So Warragul has a new roundabout at Albert and Mason Sts. I think roundabouts are great and who ever decided to install another one is to be congratulated.

It is well known that one is more likely to have an accident at an intersection controlled by traffic lights than one that isn’t. However and it is a big however, motorists need to know how to use them.

Sadly there seems to be a misunderstanding that after a roundabout is installed, one should continue to drive through it as if it was still an intersection in the ‘T’ or ‘X’ layout.

A couple of years ago there was a letter to the editor in the Gazette bemoaning the visibility across a roundabout in Drouin, the objection was to the height of the centre garden and vision across the roundabout when turning right.

Hello… you can’t turn right off a roundabout when driving on the left as we do in Australia. If you want to turn right off a roundabout you commit yourself to going around and around and around and around.

As a pedestrian when I stand in Smith Street waiting to cross the road and a car comes around the roundabout indicating right it is a reasonable presumption that it will continue around to the next exit. No, not in Warragul it isn’t. As a driver when I approach a roundabout and a car comes around indicating right it is a reasonable presumption that that car will take the second exit. No, it will more than likely pass me on the right. Which means I could have safely entered the roundabout thus speeding up the traffic flow, what roundabouts were designed for.

When I came across a uniformed gentleman in Smith Street a while ago doing some compliance work on car registration, I mentioned I was originally from another state in Australia and asked if the rules were different in Victoria. His answer was an emphatic no.

So, I said, pointing to the roundabout outside the Post Office, is it correct that those cars are indicating right and turning left off the roundabout.

Then there is the person who stops at the roundabout to let a car approaching on the right, not yet on the roundabout and several minutes from entering the roundabout to enter before them. Roundabouts are a great invention but may your god give me strength in Warragul.

Bernard Doherty, Crossover

Rushing to get to a Boxing Day barbecue at my daughter’s house, I grabbed a favourite necklace to wear, intending to put it on as we were driving.

I got out of the car at Woolworths, Drouin and forgot I still had the necklace in my lap.

I noticed it was missing later that day and I thought it was gone for good.

My last hope was maybe someone had found it and handed it in ato the supermarket service desk, and sure enough I was delighted to discover that was indeed the case.

A big thank you to whoever did this for me, a true Christmas gesture!

Janette Greenshields, Drouin

I would like to express my appreciation to and admiration for the office staff, nurses and specialists at the endoscopy unit at the West Gippsland Hospital.

Their kindness, understanding and compassion are outstanding, particularly when they have to deal with patients who are getting less positive news than I received.

My visit made me reflect on what a fantastic facility full of dedicated staff we have on our doorstep.

It also made me wonder who thought the idea of putting cameras up the orifices of people was an idea that was worth trying.

We have come so far with miniaturisation thankfully. Given the size and bulk of the very first VHS camcorders, I am so glad I wasn’t in the first trials. Greg Tuck, Warragul