Re: ‘Sort out infrastructure first' (The Weekend Sun, January 27).

In his letter R Paterson writes of Tauranga's traffic chaos: 'The solution is stop developing subdivisions and issuing building consents until the infrastructure mess is sorted out”. Well, I thought this too and about 12 years ago I contacted the newly-installed Mayor Stuart Crosby, when I still thought he was genuine, and asked that either the ratepaying Welcome Bay and surrounding communities be provided with a half-decent road or that limits be placed on the residential development of the area until such a road could be provided. However, history shows Mr Crosby, eager for rates income, rejected both these options and determined instead that members of the Welcome Bay and surrounding communities should pay dearly in their time and money. Some 12 years later Mr Crosby has been and gone and we are still paying!

R Rimmer, Welcome Bay.