As a mother of three young drivers I worry about the significant blind spot that this car creates everyday during the morning peak hour traffic.

Windang Road is a dangerous road to navigate in clear conditions, however, having a blind spot to gamble with is simply a disaster waiting to happen.

Frequently there are two cars which create an even larger blind spot.

Several neighbours as well as myself have nicely asked the household in question to please refrain from parking on the nature strip, but to no avail.

I have contacted Wollongong council on several occasions and asked if they could send a courtesy letter to inform them that parking on the council strip is illegal, but was told,'we don't provide that service'.

They did, however, say they could send a parking warden to present a fine, but a car would have to be illegally parked.

Sadly, cars are still being parked on the strip, so I am not convinced that any warden was sent.

What will it take? Another death along Windang Rd? I sincerely hope not. 

Kerry Doyle, Primbee

What a weekend Sydney commuters have to live with, a poor train service, standing room only, and cancellations of trains.

But for the long neglected commuters of the South Coast Line, this is our normal way of transport life.

The Transport Minister, and Minister for Loathing of the South Coast, has neglected somehow to mention to the media that we got absolutely no additional trains whatever in the “new improved timetable”.

Andrew Constance is living proof that the State Government of Gladys the Gloom absolutely hates anything to do with Wollongong.

The only steps that Transport Minister Constance has taken to bring more public transport into the Sydney City Area, is to arrange to borrow two old trams from the Loftus Tram Museum to display at the opening of the new City Tram Network.

You can spread as many vitriolic lies as you want Mr Constance, all the hard working train drivers are trying to do is sort out the transport mess that you and your collection of Management Missfits have created.

Dave Cox, Corrimal

In response to Barry Swan regarding self service checkouts at supermarkets, I agree .

We would have more people in the workforce if these were not in place.

I refuse to use them.

Staff have often guided me towards one however, when I suggest that they will do them out of a job in the future, they state that it will never happen.

Watch this space …..

Margaret Johnston, Woonona 

After three years of drought, the South African city of Cape Town is on track to be the first major city in the world to run out of water.

If household water usage (limit 23 gallons per person per day) remains constant, and if there’s no significant rainfall, Cape Town will run out of water –  April 21.

It must be reassuring for the NSW government and taxpayers to acknowledge the fact, in the event of a three-year drought the city of Sydney is well prepared.

At an initial cost of $5.5 million the lessees of the Sydney desalination plant will pull the lever that starts pumping 125 million litres of fresh water per day into Sydney dam storages.

And again we must thank our “lucky stars” of the government foresight to pay the lessees $540 million (180 million a year) to keep the plant in readiness. 

John Macleod, Berry