The very ones complaining about traffic being 'let in” on State Highway 2 at Station Rd, are the people causing the congestion!

These belligerent drivers from Katikati who are moaning should either get a job in their home town or move closer to their work.

Unsustainable nonsense to think you can drive for 45 minutes in a non-stop procession, giving no heed to those living closer to the city.

The run from Te Puna to city centre is only 10 minutes outside of peak times.
It's closer and quicker to town than many other suburbs such as Welcome Bay, Papamoa and Pyes Pa. Te Puna is essentially a suburb of Tauranga now and it's the height of rudeness for some people to think others should be allowed to join the highway in a timely and reasonable fashion.

It is the highway-hogging inconsiderates such as Moreland, Bettjeman and Moloney who seem to think they should be able to drive in an impenetrable convey of gas-wasting righteousness, and everyone else on the side roads, be damned.

Just because you're stupid enough to sit in peak traffic for the best part of an hour, doesn't mean those on the outskirts should be held up in some sort of penalty 'time out” just because of your warped idea of economic travel.

As a regular user of that intersection, I've often waited for 20 or 30 selfish buggers to crawl past, before some kind soul lets us in.

And how many of them are one-up in the car? Most!

Whereas, we car-pool, unlike most of the SH2 refugees from the north.

Time we put a toll booth at Whaka and charged these irritable itinerants for clogging up our local roads.

Show some respect for the planet and other motorists.

Get better organised and get over yourselves.

Ben Wayton, Te Puna