Cycle tracks and footpaths
There are rumours of a proposed cycle track from Bellingen to Urunga, and rumours of the challenges in bringing this into reality. I guess I don’t need to spell out the likely huge benefits to Bellingen – they must be obvious – but who here wouldn’t want to cycle to the beach for a swim? Suffice to say, wonderful idea, bring it on!
While here, if I may add my tuppence worth on pedestrian improvements on Hammond Street, the footpath over the bridge needs to be considered as well, surely. Does anyone else hold their breath when they see bikes, mobility scooters, fishermen, small kids, dogs etc all negotiating for space on a narrow path two feet above a busy road with no barrier and everybody staring into the river? I pray I’m wrong, but this looks to me like an accident waiting to happen.
Kuno van der Post
North Bellingen
Information The New World
Over recent years our council have received awards for a number of achievements, emissions reduction etc. I would like to submit a nomination for the biggest pothole. This pothole exists within the short access road to what we refer to as the Telstra car park adjacent to the Ambulance station and the public toilets in Church Street, a popular park for a large number of vehicles. A monster obscured in a wet period fall of water. Recently observed a lady in a small car bottomed out. A minor task to fill.
The latest news on this gender madness. A biological man classified as male on his birth certificate can now in N.S.W. For $73 via a simple process, can be issued with a new certificate changing his gender to female, which allows him, following a recent court decision to legally present and access any exclusive female domain.
But the madness rolls on, now a campaign to wipe the Union Jack from the Australian flag. Our heritage our proud history, an increasing number on the left claiming we should be ashamed and plead guilty for what we have achieved, it’s even becoming embedded within our education system.
Albo discussing A.I. Keep a check on it but kept under control will boost the information sector (public service) and boost our collapsing productivity problem. The industrial revolution which evolved over a lengthy period, then the onset of the computer age, high tech, and now A.I. The latter three are changing the world at a rapid rate of knots. Information, information, information the human mind, becoming obsolete, vegetating.
I can recall our local council when computers came on board. Fantastic it was said, less paperwork a reduction in indoor staff and more resources to spend on infrastructure. But the reverse has occurred on a massive scale. Councils indoor staff in 1972 around 10 and so simple to gain approval for anything. To-day the number in admin and supervision would be staggering and the approval process now a bloody nightmare. Not just locally but now across our whole network. Information now the new world and I understand A.I. Is information or data big time.
But here I am printing out information, what a bloody hypocrite, when I should be out there feeding my cows to help all those poor buggers to put food on the table.
Darcy Browning , Thora
Response to Peter Dingles Letter 16 July
I respond to Peter Dingles letter (16 July) where he speaks against the proposed development at 1 Ferry St Urunga and says that “the rights of minority and activist groups are being prioritised over traditional mainstream values”.
I think that those of us who are baby boomers are now a minority group: the ones who bought our homes for 3 times our wages regardless of how well we were doing financially and who received free tertiary education.
Homes now cost on average 12 times annual wages. Wages have not risen in line with house prices and capital gains and negative gearing have turned what were the once a traditional value of “a fair go” into investment options, not a place to have a secure roof over your head, to raise a family, regardless if you have a PHD, a trade or have no professional qualifications.
Younger people are truly struggling to be able to buy a home.
I see Council is doing their job: fixing roads and bridges amongst other infrastructure, and now giving the opportunity to allow another form of infrastructure to take place by allowing a competent community group who care about people priced out of the market to have their own home. And doing this in partnership with Council.
Council is setting an example which I can see other Councils emulating.
Sometimes new initiatives create fear but nothing ever changes unless people are willing to come up with new ideas, do the research and work together to make a significant difference.
Dianne Jacobus, Bellingen