The new City Focus I believe needs more than a few tweaks to get it right. I drove down to the Focus from the Pukuatua St side and tried to do a left turn into Hinemoa St. I must say it was an interesting experience.
The area wasn't busy but the turn left me wondering where I was going to finish up.
Sorry guys, this design is almost as good as the inner city cycleway.
Again I think council planners/engineers etc have not thought this through. The area as it stands would make a great kids playground.
I call it the Focus because I don't think it does Te Manawa any credit.
DEREK PACKHAM
Lake Tarawera
Benefits of fireworks
I defy anyone to give a sensible reason why we should have fireworks in New Zealand - fireworks that are sold to and used by 1 per cent of the population in order to derive some meaningless enjoyment from making other people suffer over a period of several days on and about the 5th of November every year.
These fireworks - the "banger" variety serve no purpose other than to make a noise; they are not pretty to look at, neither are they beneficial to anyone, all they do is to annoy people who want a quiet evening and to scare the daylights out of pets - mainly dogs, who don't understand why the noise is there.
