Letters: Is Te Manawa a walk in the park?

A reader says Te Manawa is being promoted as the perfect spot for cyclists to have a picnic. Photo/File

No picnic

As I thumbed my way through the expensive looking glossy Rotorua – Tatau Tatau, (wondering how much did it cost to produce the self-promotion handbook),
I came across the page promoting Cyway – Rotorua Biking Network.

I read down to the Green Corridor where it meanders through the inner city, giving riders the opportunity to check out the shops, or stop for a picnic at Te Manawa.

To promote Te Manawa (old City Focus) as the perfect picnic spot for cyclists, while
dodging the travelling vehicles, providing exhaust fumes to inhale, while they dine out is
ludicrous. Are Council a sandwich short of a picnic?

The Green corridor is no free ride.

It has cost $500,000 to produce, not to mention the lost revenue to businesses in taking away much needed carparks, and the lost revenue from the parking meters.

The conclusion at the end of the read sprung to mind.

"One man's panic is another's picnic." The failed green corridor project could only be
described as, "Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel, like ants from a picnic blanket".

Tracey McLeod
Lake Tarawera

Natural laws of physics

We reached the end of post-modernism last year when scientists published peer-reviewed research about self-organising matter.

Until last year they had insisted that physics could explain everything (eg. Sheldon Cooper saying 'I'm a physicist, I know everything ...') but now they admit, or assert, that matter (atoms and molecules) has inherent qualities that enable it to organise itself without reference to the natural laws of physics - quite a leap.

They seem to have missed an important point however by imbuing matter with self-determining, self-actuating qualities, they have attributed God-like status upon it.

(The whole point of modernism, and thereby post-modernism, was to avoid having to deal with God...but they have now let God back into the game.)

GJ Philip
Rotorua