If you really want to enhance the beauty of the CBD clean the footpaths and bring back angle parking.

Centre of the road parking is too dangerous, especially for the elderly and children. Unlike angle parking, first you have to park your car, then navigate a path to the footpath.

This creates two distractions –  compared to one with angle parking – increasing the risk of an accident, and blocking the centre of the road view.

You can reduce the speed limit all you want, but the only thing that will ever re-enhance the beauty of the CBD is uniformity in law, not different laws from one street to the other.

Angle parking in Pall Mall does not seem to impede traffic?

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Recently there has been a lot of hype about homeless people and affordable accommodation for people doing it tough. We see it here on a daily basis if you get around Bendigo streets.

My concern is people are talking about this but there is a facility sitting vacant that would not take much work to fix up that could house some of these people effected.

The facility is the closed Sandhurst Centre in Finn Street. From what I have been told they already have bathroom/toilet facilities and I would assume they would have some sort of living quaters, given what the facility was set up for.

The question I ask is: Why can't the Department of Human Resources and the government get together and do something positive to try and relieve this situation and make a facility usable again that people may get some benefit from? After all this facility was paid by our taxes. 

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In 1835 a young Karl Marx wrote, “Our entire life is an unfortunate struggle between the intellectual and the physical principal.”

And so it is for the people living on the streets in Bendigo’s main streets of the CBD. They struggle while a smug prime minister sits up in his mansion He doesn’t know what it is to struggle and be cast out of one’s home after not being able to pay the mortgage or the rent and keep up with the price of bills and food, which are increasing every year.

    It is a disgrace that we have homeless living on our streets in Bendigo, yet who is going to help them? In Luke 10:25-37 Jesus tells an expert on the law about the Good Samaritan who looked after a man who’d been hurt and robbed on the street. He then took him to an inn and paid for his lodgings.  How many of us would be prepared to take in one of the homeless people on our streets? 

    What will our future generation of children think of us? How will they judge us? Moreover, will the next generation stand up and fight against this injustice or will they be like our generation and simply stand still?

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