On page 14 of The Weekend Sun of 6 July under the sub heading 'In or out?” Bill Faulkner implies that there was a petition asking for speed bumps to be installed in Hollister Lane. This is not the case. The petition asked for some control over the excessive speeds of traffic in Hollister Lane. The installation of speed bumps was the council's answer to this petition. They were not requested by the petitioners. The next petition was a request that the bumps be removed because of their excessive noise and vibration nuisance to nearby residents. At the recent Council meeting which I attended and spoke at, I noted that there was only one Councillor who spoke as though he knew anything about the problem with speed bumps. The others had obviously never had to live anywhere near them. If one of the six councillors who voted for the status quo had voted to have them removed all would be well. As it is, the bumps are still there pending another investigation and we have had to shift to another unit in the Carmel Retirement Village at enormous expense to get away from the pain of these cursed speed bumps. Is this the Council's answer to petitioners who become a bit of a nuisance? Get rid of the complainant and thereby solve the problem?

Alan and Anita Baker.