The pros and cons of e-scooters in Melbourne weigh on readers’ minds.
. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email., 16/8) highlights the problem with rental e-scooters when she writes: “It offers a thrill, a smugness and a rare sense of fun.” This is exactly what a large number of scooters are being used for, however, I value my safety over someone else’s fun.
The only responsible thing the council can do is end the contracts and move on. If the council were to allow the contracts to continue, they would be complicit in the consequences that they know will occur.In her enthusiasm for riding scooters, Annika Smethurst quotes the lord mayor as saying micromobility technology is shameful. Actually, the ″shameful″ applies to many of their riders who ignore all the standards of responsible scootering.
It is beyond belief that the ban proposed should now be watered down. The proposed ban looks like joining a long list of proposals to reduce gambling harm which have been watered down or simply forgotten. A lane for pedestrians , a lane for bicycles, a lane for passenger cars, a lane for e-scooters and mobility scooters, a lane for taxis and buses, a lane for delivery trucks, a lane for large trucks, a lane for emergency vehicles e.g. police, ambulances and fire trucks, and of course a lane for SUVs and utes.
Let’s consider that no amount of ″explicit instruction″ can replace the value of sitting beside a student and guiding them to become better writers, readers and thinkers.As someone who has enjoyed an enriched life through the spoken and written word, I have never been able to grasp why we, as a society led by politicians, have accepted the outrageous inequality of our education system. Now, I do.
Later I bought a house in rural Victoria and had to borrow 95 per cent of the purchase price and use a broker to get the deal. Recently I sold the property to move into a regional city after 23 years and the only reason I have money in the bank is because I bought a modest lower-priced house. My super fund has $7000 in it as I used most of it on a deposit on the current home.
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