On the proposed Sturt Street bike lanes
I cycled to work in Ballarat for thirty years before I retired. Separated lanes would have saved me more than one near miss. Council should listen to the people who actually use the road on two wheels.
Letters to the editor
Readers write back
A weekly selection of letters from Ballarat readers. We publish the good, the critical and the corrective. House style is brief and signed.
Reply: rates are not the problem
Your editorial on council spending missed the obvious: rates per household here are lower than Bendigo or Geelong. The problem is what we choose to spend it on, not how much we collect.
Thank you to the Begonia Festival volunteers
Three days of perfect weather and perfectly organised crowds. The volunteers in the bright vests deserve a medal each. Already counting down to next year.
The Avenue of Honour deserves better signage
Visitors walking the Avenue often have no idea who the trees are planted for. A modest plaque program — co-designed with the RSL — would let those names be read again.
On heritage and housing
We can have both. Other goldfields towns have shown that sensitive infill in our heritage streetscapes is possible. What we cannot have is the current paralysis.