Learn to use roundabouts

I have seen little if any positive comment about the current changes to traffic conditions in Warragul's CBD, and that being as it may, drivers have no immediate control over what is happening whilst the construction work takes place. What drivers do have control over is their own behaviour.

I enter town from the south, that is, over the railway bridge to the Queen Street roundabout. When the pedestrian lights on Victoria Street stop traffic proceeding, said traffic backs up to the roundabout on frequent occasion. In my view, common sense dictates that if you are waiting to enter the intersection, and can see that there is no exit available to you, you wait until you have clear egress before entering. If you do not, you are stranded within the roundabout, blocking the east/west traffic flow, which is most discourteous to those drivers.

Our legislators have seen fit to address this very issue in the Road Safety Road Rules 2017, Regulation 128, which provides: "A driver must not enter an intersection if the driver cannot drive through the intersection because the intersection, or a road beyond the intersection, is blocked."

Anticipating the naysayers, Regulation 109 defines a roundabout as an intersection.

To those who continually engage in this rude, inconsiderate, in fact illegal behaviour, take a wake up to yourself, and understand that your licence is a privilege, not a right, and you are obligated to know the law.

Andrea Webster, Seaview

18,000 years ago C02 levels dipped to a dangerously low level of 180 parts per million (ppm). Plants starve at 150 ppm. This was the closest that life on earth has ever come to extinction.

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, C02 levels were 280ppm the second lowest in the earth’s history, the current level is a healthier 400ppm.

The optimum C02 level for plant growth is greater than 1200 ppm and satellite images show the earth is getting greener and deserts are being pushed back because of C 02 emissions.

The ice core data shows that temperature rises about 800 years before C 02. Cause always comes before effect. Rodger Marks pointed out in his letter correctly that climate is cyclic. Empirical evidence shows no correlation between C02 and extreme weather events.

What should we believe? Empirical evidence, or those with their snouts in the climate trough? Marc Schellekens, Drouin