Letters to the editor: Links Ave disruption not the answer

Links Ave has been turned into a cul-de-sac on a trial basis. Photo / George Novak

Regarding Links Ave (News, November 14) this is one of the widest secondary roads in the Mount and is one of three arterial roads that is needed as part of vehicle movements for the length of Mount travel.

So we now want to move the 5500 vehicles to Oceanbeach Road - which is narrow and slow now - and to the continuing delayed, slow and never-ending under-construction State Highway 2.

There is no other way and a lot of fuel is already being used, sitting in traffic queues.

This is once again, in my view, this council showing no interest or thought to the people in it and the ratepayers.

I agree with safety for kids, but this does not do it. A school has movements 30 minutes each side of the bell for four terms.

Summer traffic is part of the Mount and the school is closed. Am I crazy or is there is something wrong here?

We will now see the roads being really slowed down as parents will also drive further on the other road just to drop their kids at the school door.

And the bus lane - you would think the bus traffic was like on Dominion Rd in Auckland but Links Ave it is one bus, and wait and wait for the next one.

I strongly think the people need to protest this.

Peter I Clark
Mount Maunganui

Bad vibes from quiz

Well, I just completed the questionnaire on My Tauranga Vibe (News, November 8).

In my opinion, the survey was totally unashamedly pointing at what the council want you to say to suit what I believe to be their already devised plans.

I found it was impossible to answer truthfully, there is no way of having your say, the choice of answers gives no true options as to what we actually want to see for Tauranga.

There is no mention at all about road congestion on every entrance into the city.

It appeared to me the council wanted to waste a lot of money on green spaces in central Tauranga, which in my view serves to inflate the revenue from parking metres - the main reason we don't go there.

G S Horan
Bayfair

Nazi comparison goes too far

To compare our government to Nazism is going too far. However, Nazism was founded on a dictatorship and, in my opinion, being dictatorial is definitely a characteristic of our government.

Things it has done that lead me to this conclusion include the following:

Forbidding citizens of Tauranga to hold a referendum on a particular issue, even when more than enough had signed a petition to warrant it. The Government then pushed through legislation on that very issue disallowing the whole nation any say on the matter at all.

Despite strong opposition, it is are pushing through its Three Waters reforms.

The ridiculous thing about the latter is that it is inviting the public to have their say. But what's the point, in my view, when it is going to ignore the public anyway?

Ian Young
Pāpāmoa

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