M Chandler (Letters, February 16) wrote about toll roads in NZ, why is it that the Bay has two toll roads?
You listed as the new highway Raumati to Waikanae is not a toll road, what about the one nearer home, the Waikato Expressway, drivers allowed to do 110km/h from Cambridge to the outskirts of Hamilton and no tolls on that road.
A while ago I travelled from Auckland to Hamilton and was amazed at the expressway/motorways that are being built there, apparently free of tolls.
Many of us would pay tolls for a road from Katikati to Tauranga, but as this was National Party-driven before the last election and none of the electorates that this road will pass through are, Labour held, hence no road.
On the Southern Motorway in Auckland from Papakura to Takanini work on widening the road was stopped to build a cycleway by the side of the motorway, priorities for some are not the same as others.