YOur Say: When will fallen trees be taken seriously?

Second, the child care centre at the corner of Eucalyptus Street, their emergency exit is blocked by another fallen tree. Are the council waiting for another emergency to occur before they take action?

Instead of our street sweeper resting in a nearby car park perhaps he could clean both sides of Brushwood Drive.

John Seward, Alfords Point

Thank you thank you thank you Ian Percival and Brian Nixon for your thoughtful and in-depth responses to recent letters about climate change. The selfish, biased, narrow-minded and short-sighted likes of Scott Morrison, Craig Kelly, Stephen Galilee (NSW minerals council), Alan Jones, Ray Hadley etc. whom live off the spoils of fossil fuels, but whom will be long gone when the climate continues to worsen, make me sick!!!

Jason Dullow, Jannali

Madam Waters M.P,

I am assuming, as you have been elected into a political position, that you were voted in by like-minded individuals. As such, respect is due to whoever occupies that position.

I do not know you and haven't heard of you, so I do not have a platform from which to judge you.

However, I do know of and have heard of and have seen the hard work that Pauline Hanson has put in over many years for the good of Australia and Australians.

You have some hypocritical gall in writing and asking for another politician to be removed from a forum that that politician has put so much effort into getting such an essential problem to the stage where it can be aired and, hopefully, sorted so that all sections of the Australian community are treated fairly.

This 85-year-old, who by the way, has lived through many droughts, bushfires and natural disasters than you have in your green bubble, wishes to say to you, use your political clout for the useful benefit of Australians. ..... not what you seem to be doing now.

Glenn Williams, Heathcote and yes ... I admire Craig Kelly too !!!!

Have people noticed how badly damaged and degraded the roads are all around the Sutherland Shire? Especially in areas of high development, where large earth-moving trucks have frequented for months on end. The costs to repair the roads are going to be astronomical!!!!!

Since many of these projects are state government approved, the state government should be paying for their repair.

This is what residents near these developments are left with - using their council rates to repair local infrastructure after the developer has moved on to the next project!!!!

Also, the Sydney Water pipes underneath one of the main stretches of road at Jannali is frequently broken. I am guessing that this is from the weight of the large trucks that repeatedly hurtle at speed along the road.

Another concern is where is all of the extra water, for all of these new developments, going to come from?

Jason Dullow

Jannali

Now that a new hotel and multi-storey residence has been approved opposite Monro Park, the council and state govt seriously need to address the pedestrian issues when accessing the train station.

The current pedestrian crossing causes peak hour and weekend traffic jams. With the likely increase of intoxicated people from the new hotel crossing the road late at night, we need to replace the existing crossing with a ramped underpass and fence off any access to crossing the road. The benefits of an underpass are that it will greatly reduce bottleneck traffic congestion and improve pedestrian safety.

There is plenty of unused land on either side of the road to accommodate a ramped underpass, and this requirement should be part of the DA process.

Bruce Elliott

I can't answer Deb Gibson's query (Leader 26 February) as to how the promised 'Cook' $15 million will be spent, and I am not involved in what is happening on 29 April to commemorate the Endeavour's landing at Kurnell. Sutherland Shire Council I believe will release details of this soon. Meanwhile, on Saturday 18 April 2020 Sutherland Shire Historical Society (SSHS) is marking this significant anniversary with the launch of a new book, East Coast Encounters 1770, reflections on a cultural clash.

This publication looks back on the first recorded contact between the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and Europeans. Unlike many traditional histories, it will present, from more than one perspective, a new assessment of these extraordinary events that took place 250 years ago. Our aim is to bring awareness of these largely unknown perspectives to the general community and to debunk the various myths that either hero-worship or vilify Cook.

East Coast Encounters 1770 will be launched on Saturday 18 April 2020 at 1.30 pm at Club on East, 7 East Parade, Sutherland. We are looking forward to greeting many Sutherland Shire residents and visitors old friends and new on this important occasion.

Pauline Curby (convenor SSHS publications committee)

As kids growing up in the 50s and early 60s, we would trek thru bushes around Engadine looking for caves. Our favourite was the secret wartime tunnel under the road just before the western approach to the Woronora bridge. The then weir was the main swimming hole, but the tunnels where great cubbies, bats and all for us kids.

Explosives would have been in there and detonated, destroying the road access to the Holdsworthy army barracks, should an invasion occur during WW11. I'm led to believe that they are still there to this day.

Ross Clarke, Heathcote

Write to the editor at craig.thomson@austcommunitymedia.com.au