Will council carry out what the people want?
SO 55% of our population say Castle Street should reopen (“It’s time to reopen city street to cars – survey”, Echo, April 14).
Mandarins of Cardiff County council, are you listening (to the people who elected you)?
Mark my words, one or both of two things will happen. The council will totally ignore the common-sense wishes of the public and keep Castle Street closed, and/or impose some nut-case alternative.
I am not holding my breath. The “eaterie” opposite the castle was a good idea, but in the wrong place. St Mary Street would have been ideal. Extra width and central to the shops. The latter ideal for their existence.
And how about a survey on whether or not Churchill Way should be opened up, to appease the budding gondoliers of our city?
The council has said it is setting up a group to look into this – perhaps an Echo survey would do the job for them, for free? Norman Rendle Rhiwbina, Cardiff
Let down again by waste collection
WELL yet again as with other parts of Cardiff, the CF3 area still awaits collection of the green bin. Thursday’s the day and still no collection. I was interested to see that Cardiff council has updated its vehicle fleet in the refuse collection department. Sadly unlike Newport council, which has opted to buy electric vehicles, Cardiff continues to buy diesel.
In a way not a surprise, with the building of an incinerator to provide electricity while burning wood pellets from Scandinavia.
I wonder if I delay my council tax payment six or seven days Cardiff council would be understanding.
I hope the environmental clearance operatives are enjoying the overtime – they are working more weekends than they ever did with the old system. Neil Fletcher Cardiff
How about a survey on whether or not Churchill Way should be opened up? Norman Rendle Rhiwbina
Drakeford’s policy is just to be different
I AGREE wholeheartedly with Paul Fenton (“The Welsh public deserves earlier lifting of restrictions”, Echo letters, April 14).
If the science in England allows hospitality and gyms to reopen then they should also open in Wales.
It seems to me whatever Boris does Mr Drakeford does the opposite. I will know what to do on May 6.
We have suffered enough.
E Hill
Whitchurch, Cardiff
More thought needs to go into planting
WE ARE in a climate crisis. And there is much wind being blown around by politicians about planting trees.
Yes, good and all, but many trees that are planted are the wrong type, not native, planted too close to each other, with no moisture in the soil and simply die off. You can plant a million trees, but there is no point if so few survive. A single sheep in a field of saplings can devastate it.
What is more shocking are the millions of trees, yes millions, that are being felled along our thoroughfares now every year across Cymru/
Wales. I have examined this trend and you see that most are not even cut down under the guise of public safety because many are only a few years of age. These trees show no sign of disease either.
My simple thought is thus, that some kind of law is going to be passed that will prevent felling of trees at the level we see now, and that companies are getting their quota in before this happens. A similar state of affairs occurred in 1997, when the law changed in regard to hedges. At this time thousands of miles of hedges were removed before farmers were prevented from doing so.
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