On December 19 residents of Omokoroa received a leaflet in the mail explaining all the proposed changes for our not-so-little village. Residential, commercial, industrial and educational facilities in the pipeline. All very good for Omokoroa and the wider Western Bay of Plenty area, but not so good for the traffic sector. Nowhere in that leaflet was there mention of a second road in and out of Omokoroa. How is Omokoroa Rd supposed to cope with this proposed increase in traffic? I guess we will just have to 'drip feed” our way out onto State Highway 2 like drops from an eye dropper. One at a time trying to squeeze into the main traffic flow, which is increasing daily. It's bad enough now! Imagine what it will be like in a couple of years when all these new houses are occupied, with many families having two cars if not more. God knows what we'll do if there's ever a major catastrophe and we all have to evacuate. Everyone trying to get out onto State Highway 2 along with hundreds of other panicking citizens from other areas, bottlenecked at the Omokoroa Rd-SH2 junction and going nowhere fast. Doesn't bare thinking about.

S Gussey, Omokoroa.