Bay of Plenty Letters to the editor: Chronicles of the Harington St 'Transport Hub'

The Harington St Transport Hub development. Photo / File

The chronicles of the short life and early death of the Harington Street 'Transport Hub' make grim reading.

Variously paused (by the council), rejected (by engineers) then abandoned (courtesy of council), the hub's story is reminiscent of that heartrending song 'Nobody's Child' - shunned as not fit for purpose with little hope for the future.

Options for The Hub - real name Carpark - are limited.

With floors sloping to the horizon, the structure is unfit for human occupation. Perhaps hanging baskets could be re-strung from The Hub's periphery. Sending flowers would demonstrate that council is indeed capable of compassion.

Collateral damage? Witness the cycling fraternity who must surely wake at night and blub for The Hub. Lashings of lycra gone to waste and Italian bicycles now worth a penny-farthing.

Come the year 3020, should the edifice still be standing, will people stare and ask ... "is this Stonehenge in steel?".

Just don't blame it on the druids.

(Abridged)

Peter Bullick
Tauranga.

Take a good look

Robert Fisher QC (Opinion, June 19) hit the nail on the head, take a good look at his last three paragraphs and digest!

He suggests our health workers must be reinforced with officers and security guards; a better testing system i.e. more in stringent and last but not least, a final test before being allowed for release.

(Abridged)

Peter Pratt
Tauranga

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