A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
I wonder how many impatient drivers would stop for the elderly, disabled, mums with children and others who need a pause in traffic to negotiate their way from the Peel Street bridge into town, or from town to the bridge, with a permanent roundabout there?
This city has for years
now worried so much about the “free flowing of traffic”, it has forgotten about the safety of people who are not at the top of the athletic ladder.
A person with little sight, and those who find distance hard to judge, and those who cannot sprint from one side to another have no way to get across unless they go further down the street. Sometimes that's the most dangerous place . . . as cars come off the roundabout they have waited at, they speed up. If you are trying to get across further down, you count your blessings if you haven't yet put your foot on the road.
One in five people have a disability. They, the elderly and mums with children need to have time to cross.
As for the red crossings which are not crossings, the less said the better. Some cars stop, others speed up. What are they?
