Re the article "Huge impacts on Bayside: Port Botany cruise ship hub progressed" (Leader, September 25).
Here we go again. So, the government is proposing to build a cruise terminal in Botany Bay.
At the same time with great fan fare and a huge amount of dredging ,another section of government is going to try and fix the beach at Ramsgate baths.
Are these two sections of government talking to each other?
Like most locals, I remember when Port Botany was proposed and the airport runways went in. The government experts assured us our beaches were not going to be affected. They built models of the Bay to demonstrate the currents etc. All would be fine they said, nothing to worry about.
We did lose the beachfronts and all efforts to restore it have failed. Seems to me, spending money to fix the beach is a waste of time and money if they are going build and dredge for a cruise terminal.
It will just change the water currents again. God only knows what we'll be left with this time.
Christine Smith, Sans Souci
Newcastle and Wollongong are wanting this terminal for their communities. Why here ? There are protected species and Towra Point for environmental considerations and the sand dredging will be a disaster - let alone the tourism disappointed arriving at a cemetery. For goodness sake botany bay has been trashed enough and trying to survive. Economics vs environment there are other places to satisfy the $$$
Robyn Parkinson
There's a major large ship port just 3km away, with road and rail access, and right next to the biggest airport in Australia. Yet they want to build this next to a cemetery and a primary school?
Peter Mills
Stuff up another part of the Bay. Right. Have you consulted with the local indigenous community? Bay users? Act first, back track second. Is that the mantra for Glady's new term?
David McVicar
Ridiculous suggestion. And the position they have proposed is not even protected from the southerly swell unless another gigantic rock wall is erected which will again stuff up currents in the bay gouging out sand from the beaches etc. There simply isn't the room and just when the bay's sealife is coming back they want to go in and wreck it.
David Dews
