Letter to the Editor No.3

Amazing! So you have to pay someone from Sydney to assess the clock? Just because you have some complaints from a few Quest guests? I live in town and yes I have already voiced my opinion on this matter but I am also a business owner who relies on the tourist dollar to earn a living. The tourists who visit my shop always complain loudly about parking, the lack thereof of free parking and the cost to shop when you park in the city. So if you are going to consider silencing the clock how about stopping the parking fees that stop the many tourists visiting my shop and the CBD! Don't stop the clock for a few Hotel guests - stop the parking fees for the many hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit our City!

What came first the Hotel or the Clock??

"Does Ivan Dean have the experience of hearing the clock after midnight? 

We live in town and are just 2 blocks from the town clock and after midnight the clock only chimes on the hour.

If you come to visit it is part of the Launceston experience. Surely the Hotels have the ability to reduce the "noise" levels by double glazing, heavier window furnishings etc, and shouldn't this have been factured in when they were originally developed? Has the noise levels of the town clock been measured? And if so what was the result? And while you are at it can you also do the local Niteclubs, Pubs, loud cars etc that DO wake us up? This is a waste of resources and council time, when there are more important issues that need addressing in this city ,than the toll of a bell!"

I get on my soap box every now and then - this week it was the town clock and last year was the assault of my 16yr old daughter in broad daylight in the Launceston Mall (a story for another time). But if I feel strongly about an issue I will write to the editor of our local newspaper.