Ringalings

SINCE the beginning of time South Terrace has been a parade for “hot wheels”. 

It’s generally social and kind of interesting. 

But something is definitely changing.

I am seeing (and hearing) more driving at excessive speed and vehicles modified for excessive noise. 

This activity is distinctly anti-social.

A few weeks ago I was riding down South Terrace and a motorbike hooned past. 

It did a u-turn at the South Street/South Terrace intersection (unbelievable!) and hooned back towards South Beach again. 

It was so loud it left my ears ringing for 15 minutes.  

This is not normal.

In fact it’s harmful and probably criminal.

It’s time to take a closer look at it

John

Ed says: We couldn’t agree more, John. Simply give police back the power to red sticker a car for excessive noise and make them drive around with the windows of their paddy wagons wound down – haven’t seen that since the beginning of time.

Go the EVs

As a resident on South Terrace in South Fremantle I fully concur with the views of Barbara Darling (“Bliss revved,” Herald Letters, January 10) regarding the blatant and deliberate revving of both motorcycle and car engines in this normally peaceful and family oriented residential and recreational area.

There are a number of conspicuous repeat offenders who seem to think it is smart and macho to draw as much attention to themselves as possible, in fact it’s juvenile and displays a certain insecurity and is despised my many. 

I realise police resources are limited but a swift crackdown might cause many to rethink their actions…maybe.

I like a healthy petrol engine as much as anyone but some seem to be stepping well over the line, eating out can be both unpleasant and unhealthy when these vehicles are belching fumes and noise in all directions. 

Roll on the increasing uptake of EV’s.

I can’t be the only one who has this view…..

Chris Walkey

South Fremantle

Ed says: Going on the letters rolling in, you surely are not…

Needs traction

IN Grey Street we are also aware of the hooning that occurs up and down South Terrace and Marine Parade during the daylight hours, that seems to increase about 9 to 10pm at night.

Hopefully with the new police complex being built we will see a more positive approach to hooning.

Some years ago, I raised this problem with the local member for Fremantle but did not get any traction.

freonomad

Muffle ‘em

I LIVE in South Fremantle in Daly Street, in a section close to Douro Road.

Between 3pm and 6pm in our xnoisy traffic. 

Cars and motorbikes are bypassing the Hampton/ Douro traffic signals and are speeding.

There are more noisy vehicles because the police ignore the modified exhaust mufflers.

Frank Cerny

Ofenceive

ON Saturday my wife and i went to view the KPMG Rolex Sail GP. 

As we could not afford the ticket price and that there were no tickets available the idea was to have an outer viewing point to join in on this event, like we did for the America’s Cup and Red Bull air race and all the other events that we hold as an inclusive experience.

This was not the case, as KPMG together with Fremantle council and Tourism WA had decided that if you can’t afford or obtain some tickets you won’t be part of it. Period.

When has it been ok to fence and cover with plastic every available viewing area and have the cops actively evicting the public from areas such as the Round House.

I have never had such a negative experience in Freo as this, and we together with the rest of the unwashed felt completely detached and embarrassed to be a West Australian and Freo citizen

We are not a Rolex or corporate community in Freo.

We spoke to out of state visitors and a couple from Albany who like us where ashamed at how this had been corrupted into an elitist event.

SailGP, Tourism WA, Freo council, if this is how you will be promoting WA and Freo to a global audience, stage it somewhere else.

Don’t let the corporates spoil what is a great community.

Shame on you.

David Moore

Hackneyed

BARRY HEALY’S anti-Trump-read Western democracies rant (“Venezuela: of mice, minions and Revolution,” Thinking Allowed, January 16) uses the same old hackneyed phrases and reversed truths so loved by the dog-eared card holders of the failed socialist experiment. 

Barry, in the comfort of his middle-class Australian home life shared with the Venezuelan emigrants he disparages for being ignorant in their political views, uses the same reversal of truths weaponised for over a century by authoritarian governments. 

Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chaves failed by military coup to take power and after prison time when duly elected as president passed an enabling act (sound familiar-Adolf Hitler) to over-ride democratic process).

Barry then ramps up the rhetoric by accusing the right-wing of “violent riots and murder”.

The eight million citizens who left their country since 2024 had no alternative but to vote with their feet. 

Perhaps Barry should listen to some of these voices rather than filtering the facts through his nuanced ideology. 

Alan Greenwood