Beach residents don’t want ‘road’ along dunes

THE word NIMBY seems to be a favourite to describe concerned residents of the Gold Coast, who wish to preserve the wonderful environment of our coastal dunes and beach.

Naturally, those who live close to the encroaching disaster of the proposed and now – rushed through – “walkway” along the top of pristine dunes, are trying to stop this madness from making Surfers Paradise beaches part of a road system, with all the attendant hooliganism and bad behaviour we see on our footpaths and roads.

Your editorial “No Room for NIMBY’s in our Oceanway” (GCB, April 9) only reiterates the biased attitudes of those who think owners are only concerned about themselves.

They are not.

Imagine a long concrete path, (road) inviting all those bike riders, scooter riders, skateboard riders, hoons of all sorts – of which we have plenty, being given free rein to tear along the top of sand dunes – across entrances to the beach, knocking over children, and throwing rubbish as they go.

Now – I look out and admire sand, water, swimmers, children, toddlers, all with buckets and spades, elderly folk admiring the view, with not a hoon-ridden vehicle in sight.

Change the title of those of us who love our beaches to NOROOB – translated to “No Roads On Our Beaches.”

Much more appropriate. Please look at this other side of the question with a degree of impartiality for those of us who loved Surfers for the past beauty of our surroundings.