The transport committee supports a scheme to include a bus-only lane on Cameron Road-CBD to the Hospital - a plan that looks to eliminate roadside parking, making way for a dedicated third-lane each way for buses only at peak-times. Parking, then, is only available off-peak presumably?

Parking shortages in the CBD/Avenues is already beyond critical, and this scheme can only make this much worse. The CBD's extreme lack of parking extends the problems outwards significantly.

Many business workers already park extensively throughout residential areas in the vicinity due to the lack of parking available within commercial/shop premises. Street parking will likely be available on work days between, say, 10am and 2.30pm?

This looks like another nail in the coffin of CBD/Cameron Road-businesses. It is clear that council staff and councillors are yet to realise the significant impact of these rather low level, ill-conceived schemes and plans.

I Stevenson, Tauranga (abridged).