KNYSNA NEWS - Starting this week we will sporadically pose niggling questions that affect the community, which we expect you the readers to answer in a robust online debate.
A summary of your comments in the newspaper the week after your vent session.
Party-pooping police?
Most people see Knysna as a town geographically divided between the eastern and western sectors because of the perennial, party-pooping police roadblock at the provincial hospital.
So unless we're talking morning barflies that could easily slip through the cracks, thirsty, thrill-seeking eastern Knysnarians are forever confined to Bosuns, the golf club or Blend for their entertainment and those to the west are forever deprived of the pleasures offered by these spots (and vice – if one dare use such a term – versa).
Many citizens, happily or reluctantly, agree to this because, well, drunken driving is such a big no-no. Others argue for a middle ground, for a local authority that can discern between the father driving home after a beer or two from his daughter's 21st celebration and the tattooed, snaggle-toothed bar brawler on his third bottle of brandy speeding through town in search of an unsuitable place to vomit.
They say Big Brother has gone overboard, that after sunset the town is all but dead and that Knysna by Night is but a pigment (yes, it's on purpose) of our collective imagination. What does Pataya (Thailand) do in Walking Street that we just don't get? How does New Orleans manage Bourbon Street so successfully night after night while we negotiate a ghost town?
Why forfeit the entire potential of a thriving night-time economy for the likes of an Amish outing?
Surely the municipality should either institute a proper public transport system or get the cops to lighten up a little, right?
Tell us what you think and try to focus on a solution.
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