Congratulations to the engineers who designed Te Puke's main street layout.

Lord Jellicoe would have been impressed by the navigational hazards, the traffic congestion and the hold-ups, and the fuel company sales through stop/start tail-backs and queues.

Rejoining after parking, in the few spaces left, is at the courtesy of other drivers.

When will parking be prohibited, and high maintenance gardens put in? When will it be finished? Will we ever have a street without traffic cones? What will the increases in rates be?

The obscene amounts already spent must be well over the original budget – and still it goes on.

Will they ever take note of the previous times, where this has all been tried and did not work?

Ignore history and repeat the mistakes.

D Hardie, Paengaroa