The powers that be must love Aucklanders. During the last few years they've filled the place up with roads and the people have dutifully filled these roads up with traffic. Now they are being told because there is all this dreadful congestion the matter of tolls must be looked at to help cure the problem and there even seems to be an acceptance of this.

More than a year ago I sent a letter to a so-called respected place of opinions in Auckland. It detailed how Barcelona in Spain had this very same problem. They - whether national or local or a mixture of both - had decided to flood the city with free public transport for a year. This worked so successfully they cured their congestion problem, so after a year they then brought in a very small-graded charge for trips and the people went on using the system. Recently I used the $1 bus in Fiji from Port Denarua to Nandi. Nothing flash but it works like a charm.

We should remember the people in charge are being looked after very well thank you, and don't want anything that might upset that situation. So what happened to the letter? That's easily fixed. They just never printed it.

R McGuinness, Tauranga