Letters: What will be the effect if more motels switch to MIQ, emergency housing?

Rotorua's Sudima Hotel, pictured last year, is being used as a managed isolation facility. Photo / File

If more hotels join the ranks of providing MIQ facilities in Rotorua, and more motels are being added as emergency housing providers, what will be the effect?

After all, every action causes a reaction.

• Increased risk of contracting Covid-19?
• Increased crime?
• Fewer tourists?
• Less contribution to local economy?
• Fewer residents?

Did disaster strike during the Covid-19 lockdown - or afterwards?

When rebuilding after a disaster, individuals and families find themselves required to make several big decisions, including whether they'll stay or leave.

Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision.

The road is paved with flat possums that couldn't make a decision.

Tracey McLeod
Lake Tarawera

Give Rotorua a break

So not only are motels, hotels and anywhere with vacant accommodation being taken over by emergency housing, transitional housing and everything in between, but even vacant land is having accommodation for the same built on it.

Now, Rotorua is being eyed for more MIQ accommodation.

Has the Government put a big circle around Rotorua, so it doesn't bother looking at any other part of New Zealand?

It is planning to open up our country to make it easier for people to arrive here?

But if we start getting visitors again in larger numbers, even local visitors, where will they stay?

We will have no accommodation available with it all taken over.

It's about time the Government eyed other areas.

Give us a break.

Viv Radley
Rotorua

Peak traffic problems predicted

I am pleased Jim Adams (Letters, August 14) is happy with the new intersection at Te Ngae Rd.

It may be that he does not have to turn right into Tarawera Rd on his way from town.

Waka Kotahi NZTA has seen fit to include two right-turn lanes at the junction.

Drivers knowing the layout will wisely use the right-hand one but those using the left lane, upon entering Tarawera Rd, will immediately be faced with a row of angle-parked vehicles - the lane disappears without warning and there is no indication to merge.

This is not good planning as few local drivers are noted for courteously "merging like a zip" and I foresee serious problems at peak traffic times.

Ronald Mayes
Rotorua

Soft on crime

It is becoming more evident that our penalties for hard crime are too weak.

We have tried all the soft ways that have proven no deterrent, so we need consecutive penalties to be introduced to stop discounts on crimes committed at the same time.

We need minimum sentences to be put in law and finally our police and emergency services need more protection being, you harm one of them you go for a very long time without parole.

Criminals know when they are committing crime and it is wrong, and wouldn't like it done to them or their family.

Graham Holloway
Tauranga

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