I can now understand how the Fix the Bloody Road mouthpiece and supporters get their opinion. It's because they are either driving cross country in la-la land, or they are driving the race of their lives, cutting and passing with a vengeance, foaming at the mouth.

Thinking that banning all new home builds will improve the road is pure short-sightedness and archaic. Such a scheme would be outdated as soon as it is finished.

What you do need is a decent transport system as they do in England, America, Perth (Australia), and most major cities, in fact.

By golly, do I have to point it out? All of those that choose to live outside the city but want to work in it should have a decent rail system with the appropriate amount of stations and car parks i.e. give up your private bubble that generally carries one to two people, swallow your pride and catch a train. This may not be possible for everyone but I am 100 per cent certain that such a system and attitude change would certainly make a huge difference that would last a hell of a lot longer than the Fix the Bloody Road babble.

R Stewart, Te Puke (Abridged).