Good to be back home in the Bay after five weeks away. However, I chose to check out the SH2/Te Puna roundabout this week and was disappointed to see that although the roundabout is now up and running, the replacement to the War Memorial is not being built!

Before I travelled I enquired at the Western Bay Council as to what was delaying the new hall that the hall committee had been assured by the council, together with NZTA, would be built, but was told that there was an objection to the resource consent.

In that case, with all construction requiring a resource consent, then maybe a new work like, for instance, the high speed trains, will certainly cause objections.

Tauranga's MP and Minister of Transport Simon Bridges at an Omokoroa meeting to discuss the SH2 problems turned down flat a suggestion from the floor that a local commuter train be considered to take traffic off SH2. Park and ride seems to me to be a sensible idea. Park at Apata and Borrell Rd and ride the train to work/school?

P Turner, Pyes Pa.