Letters: A last-gasp solution to bad design?

What the Maunganui Rd and Girven Rd part of the Baypark to Bayfair Link (B2B) project is expected to look like. Image / NZTA

The New Zealand Transport Agency is considering adding a third lane to the Bayfair overpass (News, June 14).

Surely a new build like this would be four lanes at the outset.

Have they not learned from the debacle at Hairini? Do they not realise that at one end of Maunganui Rd is New Zealand's largest and fastest-growing port and industrial area?

Do they not realise that a tidal flow system is a last gasp solution to bad design?
A build like this anywhere else in the world would have extra lanes built-in for future-proofing.

Ross Ogle
Tauranga

Praise for maternity Unit.

In times when our medical providers receive a lot of flak, I wish to praise the service that my daughter and her partner received during their time in the Tauranga Hospital maternity unit.

While the outcome was not what we wanted, I can but praise the staff that attended my family. They were ultimate professionals in every phase and the courtesy shown were simply amazing. I thank you from the bottom of my heart you were wonderful along with the assistance of my daughters two midwives.
Roy Skedgwell

Whatawhata

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