YOU SAID IT! Gas, splash and signs of the times
Letters and Comments
We’ve delved into the more than 250 comments posted to our stories on social media, and dozens of comments and notes in our [email protected] emails and a handful of letters to the editor also coming through to pull together our regular Friday YOU SAID IT! Feature editorial so you can see what your community is saying.
While you have your say today in your FREE and always fresh and first with the news media outlet, Newsport’s editorial leaders Bryan Littlely and Shaun Hollis are back tomorrow with their regular, light-hearted Saturday Snapshot, HOW WE SEE IT!
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Calls for street artist sign revamp
Karl Castles - Newsport Facebook
I'm sure there's enough young fellas here willing to donate some rubber from their tyres to blend them back in.
Alan Aye Bee - Newsport Facebook
I keep saying it, leave the speed numerals, and use the orange background for beautiful plant art of the great and beautiful Northern Queensland. Get out there all you talented graffiti artists.
Julie Gorman - Newsport Facebook
Hopefully someone in the middle of the night will paint it green!
David Haratsis - Newsport Facebook
The same department said there is no public transport up here as apparently there is no demand (despite not asking anyone). I ask - where was the demand for this intervention, what problem is it trying to solve, who asked for it?
Marcus Anderson - Newsport Facebook
How about we turn it into a Precinct, all delivery trucks out by 10am otherwise wheel it in or get rid of the center parking.
Susan Morgan - Newsport Facebook
I hope all the people who were so supportive of this speed change are now hiding their heads in shame! What wasn’t broke didn’t need to be mended!
Julie Collis - Newsport Facebook
If the point of doing this is to slow traffic down because of pedestrians………how about police doing their job and fining tourists for jay walking all over the street??
Jade Phoenix - Newsport Facebook
How much water needs to be over the road before it's not quite visible, as this may be the design rubric, to have it still visible with an appropriate deluge of water? Like 4m worth.
Leith Keegan - Newsport Facebook
Yeah... anyone would think we're in a nanny State... oh wait... we are. Maybe some signs reminding pedestrians that our roads are not footpaths would help... signs like the croc signs... something like a squashed pedestrian under a car... in a red triangle.
Up in flames… gas outage wipes trade
Simon Scott McLeod - Newsport Facebook
Newsport Daily what about the gas?? Surely that’s the main story? People need information. Radio silence since it went off Business all closed on a Sunday
Simon David - Newsport Facebook
I’m in town and Origin just reactivated my gas. Thanks Newsport Daily for the updates. Much appreciated. I think Origin need to look at their corporate communications team.
Yumi Harris - Newsport Facebook
Called Origin emergency number just now. He says will finish fixing problem by late tonight or tomorrow. No gas for cooking and hot shower tonight again. And there is no formal comment from Origin itself on their web site. He says they can’t do update at the moment. Will do it shortly. No gas without any warning and any information whatsoever.
Henry Johnston - Newsport Facebook
How's it going getting any information from Origin Energy? “Crickets Chirping”
Comments flow on splash park news
Rosie Wang - Newsport Comments
Would have been nice to have included more trees (or not taken so many away) in the design to offer shade and scenery. The design reminds me of the roundabout at the entrance to Port, with painted leaves on concrete - how very urban.
The ongoing cost of maintenance works out at nearly $6000 a day. I am sure someone could be employed to sweep leaves away if they fell in the water areas. A shade sail (or two) will be required otherwise there will be some crispy kids accompanying the BBQ food.
Would be good to have an area for food/drink vans with seating area. The play area at Muddy's Cairns should have been used for inspiration - surrounded by trees, shaded, (fenced in - which this one doesn't have) a thriving cafe to support local employment and a safe area for children to run around in.
Trevor - Newsport Comments
Can I ask who in the community voted for this total waste of money? As far as understand the community has been crying out for a lagoon so that tourists and locals can swim during the many months of the stinger season and away from the constant issue of crocodiles that have increasingly closed our beaches.
How many have signed up to a $3.3 million kids playground, even the image graphics show a total of what 5 kids having fun while the other several thousand tourists decided that Cairns or Townsville is more appealing than Port.
If you want to build a Port Douglas Muddies kids spray park build it on the esplanade not on the only logical site for a lagoon, again this council has shown it has no idea, when it comes to the needs of Port Douglas, just a wasted opportunity to achieve something great for the Douglas Shire instead delivering another white elephant.
Gordon Smith - Newsport Facebook
Please get locals to build it imagine what they could build with that amount of money??? a lagoon pool probably???
Nettie Noodle - Newsport Facebook
Glad the project is going ahead but sad it’s a Brisbane based company not something more local … Def not ‘Doing it in Douglas’
Nicole Phelps - Newsport Facebook
Let’s hope that this splash park is not surrounded by concrete and no shade. PLEASE keep those gorgeous shady trees - they’ll be needed!!
Astrid StarSeed - Newsport Facebook
Yeap, they'll cut down all those trees in the next few days.
Dawn Cruikshank - Newsport Facebook
Well I for one am very grateful to council for finally getting this project underway. We are a town that relies on tourists, and visiting families are attracted by what we have to offer. Does it tick all the boxes? No. Is it better to have something than nothing? Hell yes. Bring on 2025 and a new and safe family space for our region. Progress will never satisfy everyone, but understanding, compromise and acceptance is key.
Steve Williams - Newsport Facebook
Total insanity! Who is going to benefit from this? Small minded council have not a clue on how to improve PD! Also an insult to tax payers who will have to put their hands in their pockets again. Pathetic!
Ken Robb - Newsport Facebook
Such a shame the design is only for kids. What about the adults who want to swim or cool off safely out of the sea. Not very inclusive. Wondering why it couldn't have been based on a smaller design of Cairns Lagoon? Doesn't appear to be a design fit for all the community, including locals and ratepayers to enjoy.
Jackie Driscoll - Newsport Facebook
About Time.... Hurry up and get it done
Mim Hayward - Newsport Facebook
Concrete..and extremely hot! Considering something has been on the cards since I lived there, 2002-2012, this is how they want to adorn such a beautiful place, near the rainforest! By the reef. Heartbreaking
Kim Christensen - Newsport Facebook
Nice to hear it's going to start. Sometime trees have to be cut down but I am sure new ones will be put in. This is going to be so good for Port Douglas an all our kids and families to enjoy.
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