Golf publications are the clear objectives in terms of locating unused space for the ever-increasing numbers of people the government is allowing into the United States of America (“Unlocking Sydney’s unused space and waterways to build a habitable town,” September 18). Woollahra Golf Course is an ideal example of a nearby council viewing 9 holes as a neighborhood park and dog track. It straddles well-frequented football ovals, and the motion of people between them has emerged as untenable. Many have no problem with what else may be going on around them and honestly see the direction as a thoroughfare.
Golf may be perceived as badly dressed old blokes hitting balls around the grass, but it takes consciousness and attention. How much soccer golf equipment allows bikes and pedestrians to meander throughout the sphere when a game is in progress? Rather than searching out solutions to the symptoms of population boom, how approximately we cope with the real issue – regulating population by having a clear plan for the future? – Christopher Woodley, Vaucluse
The NSW government plans to seize golfing courses to make up for its planning generosity closer to developers. It has failed to insist on open areas in residential and industrial areas and to update our parklands with buildings. Premier, tweak your development concurs to ensure enough open area. Where are the additional open-wearing facilities for the younger ones? – Stephen Dunn, Bonnells Bay. I enjoyed my ride to Japan, which featured incredible admiration for the Japanese. However, turning Sydney into every other Tokyo to serve commercial enterprises and the authorities is not exact.
Sydney is located on the driest inhabited continent, and already our international warming has brought about droughts that are threatening our water resources. Building more dams gained’t make it rain. Already, Sydney’s dams want to be many times bigger than cities like London, even though London’s population is often bigger than Sydney’s. And, the only element maintaining Australia’s GDP out of recession is a growing population. Per character, we are not becoming higher off. Using population boom to offer earnings for the massive cease of the city and propaganda for authorities no longer justifies overcrowding, the loss of our green areas, and traffic nightmares. – Brenton White, Mosman
Given the purpose of the country’s government to cram even more human beings into Sydney, the search for additional space becomes more essential. What higher source of playing fields and open areas can there be than the goodly-vaunted and astonishing acres of playing fields in our taxpayer-funded public colleges? – Nola Tucker, Kiama A swimmable Parramatta River? We’ll all be glowing in the dark. – Peter Miniutti, Ashbury. Your correspondent is right to call the web page of the new Parramatta swimming pool a ”land take hold of” (Letters, September 17).
Parramatta Park, just like the Sydney Domain, is the town’s lungs. As both cities get larger, the parklands get smaller. In Sydney, the art gallery is to be prolonged into the Domain, and in Parramatta, the new stadium, the large swimming pool, and even the RSL, constructed in the park in the 1950s, was, or might be, enlarged. Land grabs just go on and on. – Clive Lucas, Neutral Bay
The cruise ship terminal will smash Botany Bay.
They need to go in advance with a massive cruise ship port in Botany Bay (”Full steam beforehand for a third cruise delivery terminal in Sydney”, September 18). Massive dredging could be required to deal with these ships, and a massive breakwater could need construction to keep the swell out. The consequences of this work would cause seaside erosion, break fragile marine ecosystems, and restrict fishing, sailing, diving, and boating.
There is a lot to lose, not only for folks who use the bay for the undertaking. The best sacrifice may be made with the aid of the Aboriginal population, who have been practicing their tradition there for more than 6000 years. An earlier visitor left Yarra Bay due to its shallow waters and absence of protection. He was Arthur Phillip – a smart guy who took the First Fleet into Port Jackson. – Christine Kitamura, Phillip Bay
There is a massively extra attractive alternative for the place of a brand new cruise delivery terminal than Botany Bay – Rose Bay. This area already has a protracted history of welcoming overseas traffic, going back to the Catalina flying boat service times. Cruise ships should input our glorious heads, journey up the harbor to the Bridge and the Opera House for selfie possibilities, do a U flip, and lower back to the Bay.
A couple of underutilized golfing courses might provide an area for construction depots and automobile parks, dollar souvenir stores, and the obligatory light rail station to link to the metropolis. A win-win for everybody; a brand new terminal close to the metropolis, a lift for the struggling Japanese suburbs economy, and the cute Yarra Bay is saved. – Peter Cooper-Southam, French’s Forest. I hope they impose more potent environmental requirements for the cruise terminal at Botany Bay than for the White Bay terminal. All ships need to have a 21st-century generation on board that allows the usage of the plug-in, shore-to-ship electricity whilst in port, and must use extremely low-sulfur marine diesel.
Hopefully, there’ll not be a repeat of the environmental debacle at White Bay, whilst for years the populace of the Balmain peninsula was put at hazard with the burning of toxic “bunker fuel,” resulting in high levels of sulfur and carcinogens pumped into the ecosystem. – Cornelius van der Weyden, Balmain East. There is no mention of transportation between Botany Bay and the CBD for cruise ship passengers. Will they assemble a fast rail line to the town or increase the light rail to the ship terminal? – Ron Field, Bermagui
