A call for action
How many people have to die or be seriously injured before the remote 'powers that be' decide to fast-track the upgrade of SH2 especially the Omokoroa/SH2 intersection, and the four-laning to Bethlehem. Time is not on our side.
We live in a beautiful fast-growing sub-region, and it is vital that infrastructure development keeps up with the population growth, the problem is, there are too many layers of decision making. Each layer seems to doddle along as though time does not matter, but it does, as too many people are dying; men women and children plus industry and rural operators who need to use our roads and intersections.
Years ago, Omokoroa was recognised as a population growth node, and the sewerage system was developed for 12,000, but the SH2 roading development has not kept pace, and it is not good enough.
SH 29 is another challenge, and everything happens so slowly, Belk road upgrade being a cruel example of what not to do, as it was to have been completed before Christmas. I and many people are so disappointed. Then there are other intersections like Pori Pori. We want action.
Margaret Murray-Benge
Bethlehem