Wharf St parking? More information is needed
COULD someone please explain to me exactly where the new potential Wharf St parking is sited?
Currently we have parking in Thomas Burns St which includes specific parking for freedom camping, leased parks and public parks.
Access to this area will be difficult, or near impossible, if a State Highway 1 bypass is implemented.
We have been promised parking on the new hospital site, but we all know that the reclaimed terrain is limiting the original underground parking plans.
It seems to me that this is just the start of the problems created by building the hospital in the selected site. More information is urgently needed for
Dunedin citizens to fully understand the implications of the Shaping Dunedin suggestions.
Flower show
Janine Race
Shiel Hill
I AM a life member of the Dunedin Horticultural Society and it was a pleasure to read the excellent article (ODT, 28.9.20) describing the wonderful blooms exhibited. Congratulations to Alan Brown of Waihola for the winning manuka daffodil bloom. Congratulations to all organisers and exhibitors.
As a neurosurgery survivor, and having lived with a brain tumour for several years, I am delighted that once the show closed, blooms were taken to the Otago Community Hospice.
Joyce Samson
Forbury
US election
WITH two United States presidential debates still to come, and after watching that debacle yesterday, all I can think of is a line from Death’s End, by Cixin Liu, which is about a culture driven insane by fear: ‘‘Even if salvation were to arrive now, it would be meaningless. We have no shred of dignity left’’.
B. Thompson
Weston
Pleased to read Mr Kloogh is appealing the sentence of eight years and 10 months for what was, after all, a whitecollar financial whoopsie (ODT, 9.9.20).
An outrageous sentence. Clearly the judge got it completely wrong and Mr Kloogh, no doubt, thinks so.
I hope the court finds a way to add another 10 years, for wasting the court’s time and creating further expense.
Steve Thomas
Karitane