On a drive down Fenton St on Tuesday morning I saw just how dangerous it has become.
I drove from one end to the other on both sides and in the space of just a few minutes witnessed two pedestrians having to run for it, a cyclist using both pavement and road with little regard for pedestrians, and two cars well over the limit - one going through an amber light although he had plenty of time to stop.
Fenton St has only one crossing - if you can call it that - at Pak'nSave.
Several elderly people have contacted me and expressed their doubts about getting safely across this busy thoroughfare, one lady is wheelchair-bound.
Fenton St needs at least one controlled crossing, preferably at the point between Oppies Fish & Chips and Mitsubishi Autos, now, before someone gets killed.
Jim Adams
Rotorua
Lake weed a serious problem
Surprise! We have a serious lakeweed problem at the Lakefront, generated from a storm over two weeks ago.
Prior to the Lakefront redevelopment, in my view, access would have meant storm weed would have been removed long ago.
Rotorua council has said that the boardwalk is not a problem, it's the shallow water.
I believe most people will disagree. Access for the weed harvester was an issue, we're told. I agree.
Bounded by a boardwalk, its piles and a concrete fake beach, the lagoon is rather like a crayfish pot: Easy to enter, hard to escape. In my opinion, a design disaster.
If it is shallow water, why was that not a serious problem previously? Has the design accounted for a build-up of silt along the lake edge?
I believe the problem and its resulting costs will recur. We've paid $40 million for this nose-and-eyesore.
The putrid smell is repulsive, over a wide area. What impression will it give high-end tourists after a northerly storm?
Paddi Hodgkiss
Rotorua
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