As for making that park bigger, what's the good of wasting valuable space when there is a perfectly good green space across the road from the library.
Harry Brasser mentions the five-star hotel, its parking problems and the bus stop across the road in one of his letters to you. Good points and worth mentioning.
Now, this forward looking council has the golden opportunity to do something really valuable in a so-called tourist town.
Build a "five-star covered bus stop". So the many thousands of bus-travelling tourists can alight from their various coaches into something a tourist town could be proud of as a point of entry (and exit).
Even the little town of Bulls has a covered bus stop and it's well used.
Tourism is important to the economy and getting a good first and last impression of Rotorua is important.
If the council need someone to work out what to do to construct such a bus centre, they can feel free to ask me for my ideas. You never know, they might learn something.
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ROD PETERSON
Rotorua
Traffic troubles
The Eastern Arterial Highway has been shelved, so the traffic problem continues to grow daily.
In my view no amount of traffic lights, or roundabouts are going to ease the increasing traffic congestion on Te Ngae Rd which can only get worse.
The only solution is to remove the through traffic, heavy trucks, etc, thus reducing the number of vehicles wanting to use this road (the only road out of Rotorua to the north).
Why not build a short causeway out into the lake to by-pass Ngapuna, and complete the Eastern Arterial Highway.
I am not an engineer but would have thought the cost would not be great compared with the cost of suggested traffic lights, roundabout and flyovers and continual maintenance of same, as all would be required would be a dredge which could dredge the lake bed with very little disturbance to marine life, etc.
This would ease the traffic problem which can only get worse over the years.
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DENNIS HINTON
Rotorua
