Letters to the editor: Council it's time to sort out CBD parking

Parking in Tauranga CBD. Photo / File

Come on, Tauranga City Council. Enough is enough.

Yet again, I went into the CBD to do some shopping. This time at 9.10am knowing shops opened at 9am. Once again not one car park in Grey St.

I eventually found a park (sheer luck). I walked along the street noting two homeless, a courier driver and two other people. I looked in shops and there was the odd customer - but not the huge numbers shopping as lack of car parks indicated.

Come on council. It's time to sort this issue out and move workers using this as long-term parking out so people who wish to support the CBD can.

J Baker
Bethlehem

Losing the war on plastic

Who else believes what we are doing to reduce plastic usage and recycling is like farting against thunder?

Wouldn't it be best for all involved to stop making it?

I can hear all the cries now - what do we replace it with?

New Zealand was born on the No 8 wire, can-do attitude mainly because we're at the bottom of the world and had to invent things to survive.

What's so different now?

We are fighting a war on plastic which we are losing big time, so isn't it time to stop making it? In the end, it's just a product of convenience for us all after all.

Gavin Muir
Rotorua

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