The recent agreement between the Western Bay of Plenty District Council and the New Zealand Transport Agency to co-operate with improving Omokoroa roads to open up more land for more houses is not in the public's interest.

We are being held up in traffic on occasion for two hours and with the hot days an older person on a doctor's visit could die of heat exhaustion.

Travel times have become intolerable and all housing development should be stopped until some improvements are made to alleviate the traffic density.

B Young, Whakamarama.