ADDY READERS HAVE THEIR SAY - LETTERS AND TEXTS

TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE

MAYBE one of the reasons for the brawl at Kardinia Park is the gates opened at 3.15pm in the Brownlow Stand.

Bars were opened but the only place to buy coffee was in the social club.

Maybe if they opened coffee places first there wouldn’t be so many drunks before the seniors started later.

But there’s more money from grog than coffee. Name and address withheld

BUS DRIVERS SICK AND TIRED OF WEAK SYSTEM

KAREN Matthews (GA 21/7) you are only just scratching at an underlying festering pit, it seems.

Not only do we put up with what you know but we face internal questioning, disciplinary action or at worse the sack because manage- ments are too weak to have these a…s charged, or put some positive steps in place to stop them getting on our buses.

I am just one of many across this state p…ed off by our weak system Kyle Hateley

POLICE NEED TO PATROL PORTARLINGTON RD

A RECENT letter (GA 17/7) raises questions about traffic safety on Portarlington Rd.

As a regular driver on this road, it seems to me that trucks, vans and “tradies” utes seem to be exempt from the road rules and speed limits constantly.

When do you see police patrolling this road — once in a blue moon.

As I understand, Geelong has a highway patrol unit to cover the area, well can anybody tell me why highway patrol don’t actually do their designated job and patrol our highways especially the Portarlington Rd?

Can Geelong Police offer a reason for their neglect of this very busy road?

Fatalities on this road are not uncommon, therefore policing and a visible presence of police vehicles on this road is desperately needed. Robert Allen, Portarlington

VILLAWOOD GIVES BACK TO GEELONG COMMUNITY

FOOTY gardens, ex-display house furniture, discounts for emergency services workers, contributing to the community and in return getting a reputation as a company that is Geelong.

Villawood and its leader Rory Costello fill the Geelong Advertiser with good news corporate contribution stories weekly.

Sure Villawood is in the business of making money and it gets and seeks media coverage and a return on its efforts. It is a brilliant method of giving to the needy in the community.

There’s is an example that all businesses, did I hear banks, Googles, Facebooks, Amazons, Apples, any multinational, should be doing for the Geelong community. Ross Kroger, Highton

TEXT TALK

SIMON Ramsay (GA 24/7) is only sorry for what he did because he got caught. Like all politicians, all sorry after the fact. Terminated HOW can a politician who commits such an irresponsible act as Simon Ramsay’s excessive drink-driving reading be allowed to remain in parliament? He is required to travel around his large electorate, tax payers should not be paying to ferry this “bloody idiot” around. Wayne, Highton