SH2 to Katikati has got steadily worse over the last six years, which for five and a half years was under National's watch. Now we have Todd Muller putting the blame on the Labour Minister. He must be suffering with memory fade.

I would jog his memory that the Transport Minister for most of that time was the MP for Tauranga, Simon Bridges, who did nothing.

Mr Bridges attended the Future Focus Meeting of 2017 with little positive result. He received a suggestion from the audience that a commuter railway service be set up to take the pressure off the highway, but he rejected that idea as the current rail line was not suitable. Yet, some months later, just before the General Election, he was seen on Bill English's shoulder endorsing the announcement of the high speed train service from Auckland to Tauranga. I knew when I left the meeting who I would not be voting for but this just confirmed it.

Unfortunately MPs regularly suffer from memory fade, usually to their personal advantage.

P Turmer, Pyes Pa.­