Letters: Rotorua shouldn't believe Bill English's promise

The Prime Minister's promise of four lanes for Te Ngae Rd is being called into question. Photo / Ben Fraser

Re: Four lanes for Te Ngae Rd.

Why should Rotorua believe Bill English's promise? At the last election he was part of a promise to build 10 bridges for Northland. Not one has been built or even started. And don't start me on his inability to know the difference between a fiscal hole and one in the head.

TIM EDWARDS
Rotorua

Sculpture query

Before proceeding with the creation of the proposed sculpture for the Hemo Gorge highways 5 and 30 intersection the council should consider the risk of copyright infringement.

It looks remarkably like the Al Jazeera Radio symbol.

Why not just forget about a sculpture altogether, save $570,000 (or more!) and plant the site up with our beautiful native trees as suggested in a Facebook feedback comment of September 15?

Makes more sense from all directions.

DAVID PREEST
Rotorua

Try wood - or mud

f it wasn't for real, the craziness surrounding the Hemo roundabout sculpture would be funny, but alas, the mismanagement and indecision is true and ratepayers and taxpayers will be footing most of the bill, however big and beyond $570,000 it is likely to stretch.

How can council have approved a project that didn't have a contract and hadn't been adequately costed and funded?

In her first term and with much fanfare and photo opportunity, the mayor announced that Rotorua would be a 'wood first' town, but in the ensuing years, this promotion must have been forgotten.

Coming after the mud fiasco, I dread what this council has in store for us next.

It seems to me that now there are three options.

1. Cancel the project. We don't need a steel object not even made in New Zealand and think of the money it will save.
2. Use wood.
3. Use mud!!

Don't use our ever-increasing rates to pay for a whim. Wake up council.

LOIS SLEMINT
Rotorua