The Commissioners and the people of middle government. The promise: We are going to make Cameron Rd safer, more user-friendly and good for people. By the way, in their blurb there is no mention of any kind of vehicles except buses – and they are going to get a permanent road lane of their own. Cameron Rd down to one way lane traffic and one bus lane.

There’s now 100 per cent more petrol use as it now takes so much longer to get from Barkes Corner to Downtown Tauranga. Massive gain in bad gases. Carparking disappears and in its place car door opens onto traffic as vehicle now beside the road lane.

A loading zone is better in that a tradies’ van is wider and it will actually be partially in the vehicle lane before opening the doors. Whoops. Here comes health and safety Commissioners...

Traffic lights that serve nobody but to slow traffic down. Footpaths that go across a road. Under the Land Transport Act 1988 there is no such thing. There is a road and pedestrians and cyclists and when entering the road (they) have to give way. 2nd Ave and others are roads. Roads are roads even when footpaths cross the road. The compulsory stop sign on 2nd Ave and the footpath are illegal. This is a death trap for cyclists and pedestrians. Want to see a really loony view? Then watch a bus turn from Devonport Rd into Elizabeth St, let alone a truck with trailer. Commissioners and middle government, you have no idea what you are doing. No road safety, no idea of traffic flow and not a clue in hell of how to run a city.

Terry Johnson, Gate Pā.