Why can't Tauranga City Council and NZTA aspire to wider roads, instead of digging up sound, paid-for sealed roads?

K Evans is probably right in saying we are pandering to cyclists. I'm not anti-cyclists, but if it's a lad or lass cycling to school, it's too bleeding dangerous.

There are too few adult cyclists, especially in mid-winter, to warrant the loss of roading - two cycle lanes equals one car lane.

Take out the row of trees on the western side of Greerton's Cameron Road shopping area [shocking idea] and we could have two lanes northbound. Shifting the re-sited traffic lights [botched decision] north again, would allow for better vehicle stacking, as four cars stopping for the light creates a roundabout backlog.

We have the very favourable situation of a racecourse and a golf course - both greenspaces adjacent to part of that possible 4 lane highway. The small amount of land, scale wise, would cause minimal change to either organisation.

Imagine yourself as that desperate ambulance driver. Before recent changes you'd have driven through Greerton, but that option has changed. Traffic flow is surely the centrepiece of any roading system – so why the opposite?

J Trounson, Pyes Pa