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Danger of American plastic body culture

 

Woy Woy Waterfront reserve is the centre of community life for the Woy Woy Peninsula.

It is where locals and visitors go to picnic, and socialise, and where kids play in peace with the pelicans and nature.

This sociable community feel and unique natural environment is what makes Woy Woy different from anywhere else, and special.

It is the reason why people come here to live, and why visitors travel miles to get here.

When will people understand that this bit of natural paradise and social life is worth preserving as it is?

Not everywhere we have people do we have to have concrete and a plastic culture and environment.

A 2.5 metre concrete cycleway directly on the reserve would ruin and change the character of life on the Peninsula forever.

Instead of a sense of community, we will end up with an Americanised plastic body culture the same as everywhere else.

As an alternative, we could put the cycleway where it is really needed to save kids' lives, at footpath level off the road on the main routes to schools, shops and station.

If we really must ringbark all of Brisbane water with concrete, then concrete where there already is concrete, and leave nature alone.

There are plenty of great water views to be had with a cycleway at footpath level on roads parallel to the reserve.

Karin Solondz, Woy Woy