Ayrshire’s view Worries of traffic safety

As a resident of Highpark Road, Coylton, I am disgusted at the way South Ayrshire Council have completely disregarded the objections of residents and the school concerning the Lynch Home development in the field behind the school.

Access to the site will be via Hole Road and Highpark Road and there is a dangerous corner at the traffic lights junction with the A70 – a very narrow tight turn for all traffic.

Highpark Road is a 20mph zone providing a safe route for children riding bikes and walking to and from school. Now, the dedicated footpath to the school will be cut in half and have contract vehicles crossing it.

During the morning and early afternoon the road carries a large number of cars dropping off and picking up children and parents who use this main road have been told they can no longer park there as it is too dangerous.

Can we request the presence of the Council officials to come and look at the access and talk with residents to get their opinions and that of the parents involved? With the recent report by the Ayrshire Post about the troubles at the local branch of the SNP, will they be changing tactics at future elections?

The SNP usually like to present themselves as god- like beings, free from the foibles, avarice and petty concerns of the other parties.

A single political hive- mind where all members and parliamentary representatives adhere to the same ideology, political systems and economic theories.

This common front has served them well in 2015 and 2016, but the lack of internal debate has been glaringly obvious and will be dangerous in the long term for Scottish society.

But could it be that the SNP just consist of normal people with the petty rivalries, micro- aggressions, grudges, infighting and backstabbing that this brings. This wouldn’t normally bother me, were it not for the rank hypocrisy of the SNP, who like to portray their party as being immune to such issues and actually use their lack of visible dissent in the party as a main column in their campaigns.

It appears that on this occasion the SNP have let the mask slip and have given us a view of a dysfunctional microcosm of the how they operate nationally. Ayrshire CND have organised vigils and gatherings to mark the anniversaries of nuclear bombs being dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War.

These tragic events took place in August 1945 and the vigils and gatherings will remember those killed or injured by the bombs that were dropped.

The vigils and gatherings are also about renewing the commitment of CND and the wider peace movement to campaign for a world free of nuclear weapons.

The Ayr vigil will take place from 1pm on Sunday, August 7 at the Wallace Tower Who was responsible for blocking off the X77 bus stop at the Cross Prestwick on Monday morning without any signage to indicate an alternative?

I walked to the airport to catch the bus. Many others - more infirm - gave up on their journey, faced with this disconnected bureaucracy.

I am afraid this type of journalism is becoming all too common and does your newspaper no credit whatsoever. The front page of the Ayrshire Post, “Famous priest gagged”. The expression gagged generally implies “An obstacle to or a censoring of free speech.”

Are you trying to imply that there are underlying or hidden circumstances to grab people’s attention to make them buy your paper?

That headline belittles a true champion of Ayrshire - without Canon Keegans a lot of people would be in a far worse place.

I truly think that Patrick Keegans deserves an apology for such a headline.

This is not what I would expect from a paper that I have used several times that’s prime focus should be on supporting the people of Ayrshire. I have been a reader of the Ayrshire Post for a number of years and I purchase it on a weekly basis, I settled down to read your paper this morning and to my disgust I read the article about a drunk driver the heading being “Hospice Danger Driver”.

I am disgusted at what this man has done as I don’t in any way condone drink driving, but to allow the sensationalisation of a drunk driver by using the fact that he works within the Ayrshire Hospice is a downright disgrace.

It is not the fault of the Ayrshire Hospice or in anyway connected to the Ayrshire Hospice Business that this man was caught for this offence, say for instance this man was employed by the Ayrshire Post would you as the editor put it to print “Ayrshire Post Danger Driver” I don’t believe you would, so why marr the good name of the Ayrshire Hospice?