Regarding Links Ave (News, November 14) this is one of the widest secondary roads in the Mount and is one of three arterial roads that is needed as part of vehicle movements for the length
Letters to the editor: Links Ave disruption not the answer
Links Ave has been turned into a cul-de-sac on a trial basis. Photo / George Novak
Summer traffic is part of the Mount and the school is closed. Am I crazy or is there is something wrong here?
We will now see the roads being really slowed down as parents will also drive further on the other road just to drop their kids at the school door.
And the bus lane - you would think the bus traffic was like on Dominion Rd in Auckland but Links Ave it is one bus, and wait and wait for the next one.
I strongly think the people need to protest this.
Peter I Clark
Mount Maunganui
Bad vibes from quiz
Well, I just completed the questionnaire on My Tauranga Vibe (News, November 8).
In my opinion, the survey was totally unashamedly pointing at what the council want you to say to suit what I believe to be their already devised plans.
I found it was impossible to answer truthfully, there is no way of having your say, the choice of answers gives no true options as to what we actually want to see for Tauranga.
There is no mention at all about road congestion on every entrance into the city.
It appeared to me the council wanted to waste a lot of money on green spaces in central Tauranga, which in my view serves to inflate the revenue from parking metres - the main reason we don't go there.
G S Horan
Bayfair
Nazi comparison goes too far
To compare our government to Nazism is going too far. However, Nazism was founded on a dictatorship and, in my opinion, being dictatorial is definitely a characteristic of our government.
Things it has done that lead me to this conclusion include the following:
Forbidding citizens of Tauranga to hold a referendum on a particular issue, even when more than enough had signed a petition to warrant it. The Government then pushed through legislation on that very issue disallowing the whole nation any say on the matter at all.
Despite strong opposition, it is are pushing through its Three Waters reforms.
The ridiculous thing about the latter is that it is inviting the public to have their say. But what's the point, in my view, when it is going to ignore the public anyway?
Ian Young
Pāpāmoa
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