Please give us answers, there are very frustrated angry drivers out there and with our alarming road toll, we don't need these sort of drivers behind the wheel.
Come on. Fair's fair.
Joan Piesse
Lynmore
Explanation please
Why have we suddenly got eight speed bumps over the 1.25km stretch of Kawaha Point Rd from Fairy Springs Rd to the Koutu Rd T junction?
Add to that the raised and disused railway crossing and a pedestrian crossing.
I have walked the road almost daily for the past 20 years and the only accident I have ever seen was caused by sun strike - a car ran into a parked trailer.
Aside from what would appear poor use of ratepayer money, we now have, in my view, an accident waiting to happen. The humps are so big that I fear a broken neck or whiplash is a real possibility - at very least, a broken axle.
Get your wallet out, ACC.
Madness.
Jeanette Crean
Rotorua
Columnist congratulated
I agree with everything that Merepeka Raukawa-Tait said about Judith Collins (Opinion, June 9) and it's about time she got some positive publicity.
The papers have been running her down ever since she was elected leader of the National Party.
Anyone with half a brain can see she's made of the right stuff to be leader.
I have to congratulate Raukawa-Tait on her column, especially as they are both on the opposite sides of the political table and yet they can sit down and have a meal together with quality conversation.
That's what I call respect for each other and to be able to put your political views to one side and have an enjoyable evening is true mana.
Gavin Muir
Springfield
Gang position disturbing
I find it disturbing the Waikato Mongrel Mob has a public relations liaison officer. It would seem the gang is leaning towards wanting to be seen as a legitimate arm of society.
I recognise that there will be evolution in gang culture, but this would seem to indicate that what is branded by the police as a criminal organisation now seems to be a powerful entity with a voice evolving toward politics and could become an arm of an anarchist movement bent on rebuilding society in its own image.
The ties that link these gangs to overseas criminal networks are unsurprising in that all seek to profit by activities outside of normal legal and moral frameworks. I've long thought that if society collapsed, gangs would become the most likely survivors in any ensuing power struggle.
We need to watch this space and know the times and seasons in which we live.
John Williams
Ngongotāhā
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