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May 14th, 2008 issue

Airport advice

When it comes to taking public transportation to the airport, all of the talk of the A line extension to Ruzyně Airport is, in my opinion, insane (“Ticket to ride,” News, May 7?13).
The route the trains will take won’t shave much off the current method of taking the metro to the Dejvicka stop, then taking the No. 119 bus.
The sensible thing to do would be to use the existing train line that runs from Masarykovo nádraži to Ruzyně village and skirts the southern edge of the airport instead — building a short tunnel beneath the airport would allow a much neater and cheaper solution to the problem of getting to and from the airport.
Charles Neville
Prague
Trampers’ trash
We have the same problem in Pennsylvania that you have with “trampers” in the Czech Republic. (“Heritage sites face threat of tramping,” News, April 30–May 6).
A group called the Rainbow People and other hikers want to establish long-term, outdoor camp sites. They camp in our National Forests and around irreplaceable outdoor industrial artifacts, and claim they cause no harm and protect the settings.
But they cause problems. They cause damage from fires, cut down trees and destroy out of ignorance, sometimes from the sheer joy of destruction. They claim this land is their land. It is not. It belongs to our communities and states.
Why don’t they do their romantic hiking in land set aside for them? Your government and ours have suggested that, repeatedly. I monitor the sites here at least twice a year and can see the increasing deterioration of these areas.
Barbara Perlstein
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Drinking ban
I applaud the efforts of the Czech authorities to clean up the streets (“Cities enforce public drinking ban,” News, April 23–29). However, I think they should spend any money derived from fines to help the “homeless people” find accommodation and offer them therapy to combat their alcohol addictions and/or other psycho-social problems!
Having lived in Prague myself, I know that in the Czech Republic there is too much emphasis on punishment and not enough on treatment and prevention!
Jay Ohio
Cologne, France
Media restrictions
Whatever restrictions there may be against freedom of speech in the European Union, at least we are far ahead of the United States (“Government has no place in media affairs,” Opinion, April 23–29). The U.S. media is entirely controlled by a handful of oligarchs who control everything that gets published. Try finding an investigation into what really happened Sept. 11 in an American paper.
Margot Winston
Prague


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[12:02 20/05/2008] : I have noticed that Prague Post recently censored a number of comments which appeared on this site. These comments all contained political opinions which the owners of your newspaper obviously didn't agree with.

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