Letters to the editor: Police and council need to curb speedsters

A reader says police and council need to stop speedsters on Maunganui Rd. Photo / File

What are police scared of?

Gang members on motorbikes who speed loudly on Maunganui Rd every weekend?

To cross the road on a pedestrian crossing at the time they speed through the town is to risk one's life as they don't slow down at all.

Those who speed on motorbikes and in their vehicles at 80, 90, 100 km/h, revving, racing accelerating up and down Maunganui Rd every day of the week?

Isn't it about time police and the council did something?

My husband has twice spoken to police on the 105 line – and nothing has changed.

We are sick of it.

Please do something before someone gets hurt or killed.

Eve Court
Mount Maunganui

Political scepticism

The public is sceptical of politicians' promises - and not without due cause - but here the latest move by the Government to pass with urgency a bill to abolish local government petition rights is a direct reversal of its own election promise: "Labour will ensure that major decisions about local democracy involve full participation of the local population from the outset."

Can there be any greater rejection of Democratic Principles?

Bryan Johnson
Omokoroa

Supply issue?

ACT deputy leader Brooke van Velden's opinion piece you published on February 4 suggests the answer to the housing crisis is an issue of supply and we just need local and central government to free up land and relax regulations.

In Queenstown, however, one in three houses are unoccupied.

According to the latest census figures, in Auckland there are about 40,000 empty houses.(Abridged)

Manu Caddie
Pyes Pa

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