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Netball courts plan on the ball Dear Sir, I think those residents who are protesting about the netball court development are being very silly. They complain about the noise of whistles and the PA system and the screaming (where else do we get to scream?), but noise is everywhere. Noise means progress. They say that putting more netball courts in means more players coming, and traffic. If my teammates and I want to hop in our cars and drive to Meadowbank Park, it’s our right, and it’s got to be a good thing, because it’s for sport. Some believe that getting rid of grass areas and putting in more concrete courts is unfair to those who like to play soccer, cricket and frisbee in that area. Well, that’s what backyards are for. Haven’t they heard of backyard cricket, for goodness sake? And as for the environment, how ridiculous, the concrete netball courts are painted green. What could be greener than that? I think it’s great to put those new bright lights in the park, so we can play weeknights as well as on the weekend. I hope further down the track Council will also install some of those huge shelters, so we can also play when it’s raining, and put air-conditioners on poles around the courts, so we can play summer netball as well. N. BALL Dear Sir, Some people just like to complain. What is wrong with high intensity lights going half the night and asphalt up to your back door? Think of the benefits: you will save a bundle on electricity because you will never need to turn on the lights in your bedroom; you will not need hearing aids because your will hear all the cheers, whistles and the PA going flat out; and you will never have to mow your nature strip, the cars permanently parked on it will see to that. As the residents were told the last time they raised a bleat about the public park thieves: ‘Meadowbank, it’s your own fault for living there.” PETER WARNER Put pedestrian crossing back Dear Sir, I support Pamela Willis’s (Letters TWT 20/1) regarding the bridge in Top Ryde. I’d like to see the return of the pedestrian crossing on Devlin Street. It is unfair to cut off residents living on the west side of Devlin Street from the rest of Ryde. We are entitled to have easy access to the Ryde facilities eg to buses, shops, medical centres, post office, school, banks, etc. I live just a few metres from these facilities, but am not able to get there as they are on the other side. Due to the difficulties in getting to the other side, shopping in Ryde’s new shopping centre is not suitable for me as I cannot imagine carrying heavy shopping bags up to the bridge and down again. I have seen people stuck in the lift there and I wouldn’t dare use it, as I do not have a mobile and I wouldn’t be able to make an emergency call on 1300 799 599, as advertised in the lift. My neighbours were regularly meeting in the old shopping centre for a chat and coffee; they do not do that any more because they cannot go up there on the bridge. I believe that the whole shopping centre is missing out on a lot of customers. DANIELA TERESCENKO Harrowing drive in new Top Ryde Dear Sir, As a resident of the Ryde for 30 years I was excited to learn of the Top Ryde Shopping Centre’s first stage re-opening. On entering for the first time from Tucker Street the drive to the parking area I found extremely uncomfortable. I have never experienced such a narrow driveway to a shopping centre’s parking area. Quite honestly I found the drive harrowing as the two way laneway was so narrow and the partitioning wall so low as to inhibit a driver from seeing it. Consequently the inevitable happened. I scraped my front right wheel against the partitioning wall damaging it slightly. My return journey into Tucker Street was accident free but not a relaxed trip. Since then several friends related similar incidents. The object of this letter is to alert the public of the narrowness of the exit and entrance into Tucker Street in particular. I have decided to give the new Top Ryde Shopping Centre a miss and drive to Macquarie Shopping Centre for my shopping. By the way, once in the Top Ryde shopping area itself I found it bright and pleasant, but the narrow entry and exit is a big turn off. JOHN CAREY And Al Gore? Dear sir, Well, now I’ve read everything. In ‘Misleading and making up facts’ (Letters TWT 3/2) Matt Rawnsley says, “Ian Plimer is not a scientist and his book Heaven & Earth has been debunked. Monckton also has no qualifications, he says. Does Al Gore have any qualifications? And he started the whole ridiculous hoax with his book. Mrs S. MURRAY Provide houses not just boxes Dear Sir, In regard to the high-density box housing being put in the quiet streets of Ryde, Housing NSW CEO Mike Allen says that “great care is taken to reflect the local character of the neighbourhood”. Would Mr Allen please explain how demolition of free-standing homes and replacement with 20 or more little boxes - stacked two high and so close together that there there is no room left for most residents to park their cars - reflect the character of a neighbourhood that is a quiet street of free-standing working family homes? It is not so, Mr Allen, and that is why the community is protesting. PATRICK SULLIVAN Happy ending to a car crash Dear Sir, You published a letter recently (TWT 13/1) I had written with the heading ‘Call for vehicle collision details’. I wrote that I had unfortunately had a collision with a car in early December and that the gentleman who went into my car gave me all his details which I wrote down on a piece of paper. I had lost the piece of paper and thought maybe if the gentleman saw the letter he might contact me. You can imagine how happy I was to hear from him last week. He has restored my faith in the goodness of people. Details supplied |
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