Driving congestion in beautiful Western Bay is awful and government has got to make decisions.

Katikati needs a bypass as the congestion in the town is unacceptable. The intersection at Omokoroa is a death trap and the so-called Safety Transport Minister thinks we can all get on bikes (the cycleway through to Tauranga will be a picturesque much-loved experience for walkers' and cyclists, young and older), but SH2 has to be widened – the Northern Access has to be built through to Loop Road. We need decisions and action.

SH29 is driving us insane too. The queues are long, slow, and the Tauriko upgrade can't happen overnight and, in the meantime, decisions have to be made: Lights at Cambridge/SH29 and Gargan Road has to be temporarily opened to help ease congestion. To be tied up with bureaucratic mumbo gumbo, making victims of road users for several years, is unforgivable.

Have authorities forgotten people matter, businesses have got to survive, people have got to get to work, schools, the Port, delivering goods to port and other parts of the country. We are a growth region and need decisions and action and leadership.

Margaret Murray-Benge