Letters: Hamurana's 60km/h speed limit 'overkill'

A reader says the 60km/h speed limit at Hamurana is 'overkill'. Photo / File

David Carman is unfortunately correct in his comments about the new Hamurana Rd speed limits, (Rotorua Daily Post, September 24).

Reasonable people will comply with reasonable speed limits, but nonsensical limits will make law-abiding people become law breakers, by accident.

Sixty km/h through the quiet country lane alongside the Hamurana golf course is patently overkill.

It places this section of road in the same category as a road like Fairy Springs Rd, where we have 100 per cent built up areas lining both sides of the road; major tourist attractions, motels, service stations, major feeder roads, traffic lights, full street lighting, median strips, shopping malls, four-lane traffic, supermarkets and dense traffic flows - Hamurana has none of these.

The Rural Communities Board opposed this change and recommended to the council that a separate public submission be held on this decision, as it was publicly advertised to move to 70km/h, not 60km/h. The 60km/h only featured after the NZTA decided it would not support any further 70km/h zoning. Unfortunately, this re-public hearing did not happen, and we now have this result.
Bryce Heard
Rural Communities Board Member
Hamurana

I can't believe it, I could get paid to live on a small raft in the middle of the ocean for a couple of weeks - no noise, people, no lawns to mow. I could read books, go fishing, charge my devices on a generator ... Where do I sign up!
Chriss Taylor
Rotorua

I was really excited when I heard about the funding for the Rotorua Lakefront as I feel it has always been somewhat disappointing but the artist's impression makes it look even more boring.

Where will the seaplane, helicopters and Lakeland Queen dock as they, at least, give some life to the Lakefront? And wouldn't it be great if one day people could cycle and walk all around the Lakeside?
Anne Foale
Rotorua

I find it disturbing to see the town leaders celebrating a combined $54.8 million to be spent on just two projects, being the Lakefront and Whakarewarewa Forest.

In my opinion, these are peripheral to Rotorua's basic needs yet require stupendous expenditure. The Lakefront facilities are durable and in good shape. Why replace hard-fired brick with wood?

For the mayor to say these projects will provide infrastructure and are supported by robust business cases, well, isn't that the same argument we heard about the airport that is now, in my opinion, a financial millstone?
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Jon Turner
Rotorua