In response to D Hill (The Weekend Sun, December 6, page 40), roads are not the sole answer in fact your suggestions are in fact cave man thinking.

The last government believed that growing the economy was of utmost importance with the support by you and many others, foolish in a way because you could not maintain what you already had, then by adding to the problem i.e. more people / houses etc. gives you the mess you have now.

More effort is needed in solving the transport issue not adding more cars and tar, let's maintain what we have first instead of growing even bigger.

This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs and businesses to design and build a working public transport system instead of flogging a dying horse.

You whingers expect the government to breast feed you on every little issue and take the blame for your own greedy, lazy, ignorant attitude whereas days of old we had a ‘Number 8 Wire' attitude and we solved problems ourselves. They were real Kiwis.

R Stuart, Te Puke.