Tauranga CBD. Photo / File
The article about a Bayfair overbridge (News, September 5) quoted Bayfair Underpass Alliance chairman Phillip Brown as saying a proposed overbridge was preposterous.
"It will be too steep for the elderly, it will be too high, too windy and too wet".
How Brown knows those things when a bridge
design is not yet available is unknown, but if he is so concerned about his stated problems I invite him to publish his drawbacks of the four existing pedestrian/cyclist overpasses in Tauranga - Takitimu Drive near Tauriko, State Highway 36 near The Crossing, SH 29 at Barkes Corner and near the Poike Road junction.
P. Harlen
Bayfair
Business is a risk
Our city councillors have been requested to provide ratepayer funds to subsidise CBD promotional activities. The CBD business owners argue they require assistance to survive.
Any business attracted to the CBD is taken (using ratepayers funds) from other business centres in our community.
Why not subsidise Greerton or Mount Maunganui when they have a bad day?
