Letters: Eastside supermarket's main road location dangerous

Wasn't there a supermarket out Eastside a while back?

How this latest one got its consents through a council that is determined to use the road it's built on as the main thoroughfare in and out of our city has got me buggered.

The traffic on that road is not going to stop increasing and even if the silly gods (the council and Mr Bridges) make it a four-lane, people are not going to play Russian roulette just to go grocery shopping.

It will be interesting to see what happens when you consider what happened to the last one - and that was in a precinct with more than one way in or out.

The city fathers have not really done anyone a favour with this short-sighted sort of decision-making. Yeah, I know, a few more jobs, so I suppose it's not all bad. ​Ah well, panel beating is not such a bad occupation.

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ROD PETTERSON
Rotorua

I'd like to extend a big thank you to the council for commencing an upgrade of the old, cracked footpaths in the inner-city residential areas of Elizabeth and Phillip Sts.

But why only do half a job, and not replace the crumbling kerbing?I've met the concrete contractor, who informed me he did the original footpaths and kerbing 40 years ago, so it was well and truly due for an upgrade, due to its age and dilapidated condition.

There is a large volume of pedestrians that use those footpaths to go into the CBD,
including school children to the various local schools, mobility scooters, people with
prams, who would in the past rather use the unsafe option of the smoother road surface instead.

Thank you council for replacing the footpaths, but please complete the job with replacing
the kerbingtoo, so we can praise you for talking the talk and walking the walk, in getting both the footpaths and the kerbing upgraded.

TRACEY MCLEOD
Rotorua