DISABILITY ACCESS
We grew up in a beach culture where every one would go to the beach in summer and have Dagwood dogs, fish and chips and crumbed or battered fish, but I do remember that grandma couldn't make it as she had a "condition" mum would say that prevented her from walking to the beach, she got out of breath.
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Years later, after gran's passing, the council erected disabled parking areas that allowed people like my gran to utilise this area and still partake in things we all take for granted even if we have to walk 100 yards or even 10 yards.
This brings me to my dilemma. What has happened to the disabled parking areas outside the continental pool that were there before the Blue Mile development but have all of a sudden disappeared? I know a few people that rely on this facility but haven't been able to go to the pool due to the fact they get too out of breath to walk the huge distance and can't walk down and up the stairway. That's a challenge for a healthy person.
I would hate to find out some child couldn't have a relationship with their elderly grandparents or even parents if they had a condition that restricted them from joining in the fun due to a large distance they had to walk, but couldn't, due to a parking area that was accidentally forgotten.
These particular parking spots assist not only people with a "condition" but sight impaired, people in wheelchairs that do aquarobics, and many other disabilities that need not be mentioned, due to a silly oversight by our council.
Without this parking imagine all the people it's inconveniencing, people like my gran. If a disabled driver uses this area , it's no more dangerous than the cyclists that career through here anyway.
T Dunn, West Wollongong
NOT SWITCHING OFF
With summer temperatures reaching new high and very uncomfortable levels across our nation, I notice that just about every business premise from Sydney to Nowra kept their lights burning all through the night as energy providers battled to keep up supplies to our State Energy Grid.
What Scott Morrison's worn out spiel about jobs and growth has to do with Business burning their lights all night escapes me, except for the fact that for all businesses their electricity bills are totally tax deductible.
Poor people struggle to pay electricity bills, but business everywhere wouldn't have a bloody clue what an off switch is. The poor have return and earn, business has waste and burn. The only winners that I can find from lights left on all night are the kookaburras chasing moths at Otford Railway Station.
Dave Cox, Corrimal
A FAULTY SERVE
I have publicly criticised Tennis Australia in the past for ever allowing a couple of national embarrassments like Tomic and Kyrgios play under its banner.
Now this same organisation has given a platform to Anna Wintour, who is clearly an aging and failing identity desperate to keep herself in the headlines, so she can attack and attempt to debase one of Australia’s greatest tennis champions and longest-standing record holders. Clearly, TA is another sporting body that has stacked its board with a bunch of wackos.
Richard Burnett, Wollongong