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Letters / Backyard ‘monster’ threatens house

RE the letter about an unwanted tree in Campbell (CN, May 12). We have had a tree, of similar size, next to our house in Chisholm for six years and have many times tried to have it removed, as have all previous tenants in the last 32 years.

quillThe government’s policy has been explained as: we don’t remove trees, we do (they removed one, refused the other) or we do if you pensioners pay the very substantial costs.

This monster hangs over our house, not just yard. We continually replace gutters. The leaves leave such a mess.

If the tree falls down, most of our house will be destroyed. We’re happy to plant smaller, non-intrusive substitutes.

No politician or senior public servant expressing love for these trees, demanding their survival, has ever been seen at our house.

John Wright, Chisholm

Thanks for the legacy,

THANKS for the light rail chain-around-the-neck legacy, Simon Corbell; $710 million would have built the best all-motorsport resource in the southern hemisphere and assisted businesses, the motor registration branch and the accommodation industry.

It’s all in the “National Automotive and Driver Education Centre Proposal”, presented in 2008, which your bumbling, fumbling lot took no notice of at the time but have since pinched the new registration facility proposal from.

Michael Attwell, Dunlop ACT

Tram canners on the move

THE annual general meeting of CanTheTram has unanimously endorsed the new committee and its actions to stop construction of light rail before the ACT election.

The president of CanTheTram, Dr John Smith, welcomed the support of the people who attended and announced that its website had attracted 1260 supporters, which makes it a large political force in the ACT.

Now that an expensive contract has been signed by the Barr government that creates few jobs, raises rates and creates a legacy of debt; the CanTheTram committee will meet to discuss its further campaign actions leading up to the ACT elections in October.

Julian Fitzgerald, communications officer, CanTheTram

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