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Letters: Get disrespectful cyclists out of the city

Rotorua Daily Post
9 Jan, 2018 04:00 PM2 mins to read

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So cyclists are wanting more respect! Ha! I was always taught that if you want respect, you have to give it!

We are frequent walkers in the "doggy part" of the Redwoods - also used by cyclists. They have little if any respect for walkers through this place, none have bells, few even bother to slow down and they seldom stick to the paths.

It is the same in the CBD, cyclists do not even bother slowing down when crossing the road; they do not use the path built for them with our money by Mayor Chadwick, and they appear to have the impression that they have the right of way and the rest of us can go hang!

I propose that a field is purchased well away from the city and cyclists be allowed to use it - alone.

JIM ADAMS
Rotorua

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PC5 a 'trick'

I am grateful that Keith Garrett (Letters, January 5) ridiculed the idea that Planned Change 5 (PC5) is a "dark plot to curtail freedom of speech" because that is exactly what it is.

The PC5 Evaluation confirmed that current law can't prevent the RDRR's yellow signs which criticised the council's performance. No wonder the mayor and her power bloc worked so hard on PC5 to stop it happening again.

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Mr Garrett's "unbiased reading" suggests that PC5 is to prevent "visual chaos". A trivial red herring.

PC5 will actually ban a "community information sign" if it does not relate to "the primary activity on the site". What does site-relatedness have to do with helping people to exercise their sovereignty in a democracy, with the permission of the site owner?

PC5 will require the RDRR to "demonstrate a community benefit of non-site related signs" before gaining resource consent. In a democracy the voters get to judge the community benefit of signs for themselves.

The calls I have had since my letter (December 28) was published can be summarised. Like the gutting of the Community Satisfaction Survey, PC5 is regarded as some by yet another political trick to prevent public comment on council's performance. Try as they might to prevent feedback and accountability, political critique of incumbents can't, shouldn't and won't be restricted to the electoral period. Ban yellow signs and we will dream up alternatives.

REYNOLD MACPHERSON
Rotorua

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