September 18, 2011Dear Sir,The reports on the widening of Town Cut and Two Rock Passage certainly cause a great deal of concern.1. The cost of $70,000,000.00 for Town Cut alone (which I am sure is likely to escalate to $150 million by the time the job is finished) is something we cannot afford in the present economic situation. So Government borrows the money and the debt and cost of financing the debt goes through the ceiling. One has to cut the suit according to the cloth.2. If we get two or three ships in St George’s, another two in Hamilton, two in Dockyard, we may be looking to 15,000 people being on the island just from the ships. I understand that there may be up to 60 buses out of service. There is a limited number of taxis — how are we going to move all of these people around the Island? The ferries will not be able to handle it, even if we had a full complement of buses to assist.3. It will be an environmental disaster to have more cruise ship passengers and we need to update the existing hotels encouraging more folks to arrive by air. The tourism plan has been a disaster for the past ten years. The fiasco we experienced this year with cruise passengers not having enough buses to get out of Dockyard, should have been a wake up call.4. We are told we need more people and only large ships are being built. Nonsense! If one goes on a cruise to Antarctica, they are smaller ships because larger numbers of people would cause problems with the environment. We do not need “experts” to help us with this situation, just good old common sense and there is not much of that around Bermuda these days.Bermuda does not need any more debt, that will be paid for by my grandchildren and great grandchildren. It will not affect me too much — I will be dead and gone in a few years!ANTONY SIESECity of Hamilton