So, Jan Tinetti, you think it's great that roads are being built and improved in Tauranga? 'Things are booming,” you say (The Weekend Sun, November 16).

Obviously you weren't sitting in a traffic snarl on Hewlett's Road at 8am any morning when you wrote your column Jan; or at Bethlehem roundabout headed out of town at peak time; or on 15th Avenue when the school bells are ringing; or Elizabeth Street when work finishes.

Jan, you must stop driving with your eyes closed.

J Lawson, Tauranga