Will they listen to Katikati?

Re: ‘Screaming bypass' (The Weekend Sun, February 17).

I will be very interested to see what the New Zealand Transport Agency come up with at the much-talked-about April open days in Katikati to solve our State Highway 2 traffic dilemma – and Katikati's last-ditch emotional plea for a long overdue bypass – after Transport Minister Simon Bridges told them to ‘have another look at it'.

I mean if they won't give Katikati a bypass how can they possibly solve the effects the high numbers of traffic and heavy trucks have on the main street by using it as a highway?

And how can they do any more to make SH2 from Katikati to Tauranga safer? I mean it's a skinny road that has no ample space to be widened or put in more turning bays for feeder roads onto the highway? What exactly can they do? They only seem interested in cheese graters from what I can see. And their effectiveness is highly debatable.

Meanwhile, as the slow wheels of bureaucracy turn, it seems the roads off SH2 along the Katikati stretch are getting worse to pull out of by the month.

And going to Tauranga since school has been back has been even more diabolical than before.
One thing is incorrect in the article – Wellington is not listening. If they were, Katikati would have a bypass well before now. But it is election year, so who knows? Their ears may prick up this time.

K Morland, Katikati.

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