While climate change in the decades ahead is real, I am very concerned that such authorities will spend ratepayer and taxpayer money on look-good measures, encouraged by Government and the media, so as to be seen to be doing something.
We see it today with the massive expenditure to encourage people to get out of cars and use alternatives which most of us have neither the ability, the time, nor the inclination to do so.
This is coupled with far too many "nice to haves" which the community cannot afford.
Bill Capamagian
Tauranga
Enlighten me, please
The placement of a huge concrete median strip along Mount Maunganui road outside Blake Park appears illogical and a total waste of valuable roading space.
They could have easily reduced traffic to one lane with a narrow median barrier and increased the present parallel parking to angle parking in an area that requires more, safer parks near a sports facility.
We have seen in recent times, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on what has turned out to be yet another wasteful roading disaster for Tauranga.
If anyone can enlighten me to what I see is ridiculous, I would be grateful.
Jane Baker
Bethlehem
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