Readers respond
The best letters from Perth readers, lightly edited for length and clarity.
Your reporting on the Stirling Highway upgrade has been sober and useful, but the missing voice is the residents who actually use it. We do not need another lane. We need a working bus priority corridor, properly signalled crossings near the schools, and an end to the on-street parking that turns peak hour into a single-file crawl. Main Roads has the data. Council has the will. Only the politics is missing.
Most outlets either ignored the bloom or wrote it up as a curiosity. You took the trouble to talk to the scientists at Murdoch and to the recreational fishers who first raised the alarm. That is the kind of local journalism we lost when the metros pulled back, and it is the reason I subscribe.
A small correction on last week's weather feature. The Doctor is not just a pleasant breeze, it is the main reason summer in Perth is liveable at all. Treat it with the respect we treat the Hawkesbury fog or the southerly buster in Sydney. It deserves better than 'cooling sea breeze' in passing.
Your piece on Friday-night transport in Northbridge was timely. As a hospitality worker finishing at 3am, the choice is a $45 rideshare home or sleeping on a friend's couch. A simple late-night bus loop through Highgate, Mount Lawley and Leederville would change lives, and it would not cost the earth.
Thank you for running results from the suburban WAFL and Perth Football League games. My father played in the 1970s and reads every match report you publish. In an era of national-only sports coverage, the small things matter most.
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