Thirty kilometres per hour, 30, 50, 100, 90, and 80, are just some of the speed restrictions we, in the Western Bay have put up with so roading can become safer.

Now, some plonker has decided that we can only travel Katikati-Tauranga at 80km/h with parts down to 60km/h once all work is complete.

That person must live in a high rise apartment in central Tauranga and work downstairs. What's the point of all the safety improvements?

The new Hilux has got more than 150kw, can travel faster than 200km/h and has five-star safety, they don't make new cars to go slower? And you don't see speedos in cars top out at 110 km/hr do you?

More like 200-plus, some even 260km/h. What's the point? I wouldn't even think it's legal to reduce speed like that on rural state highways? It's not urban?

The police going be rubbing their little slippery hands together when 11th December rolls through.

There is no logical sense to reduce speed like this. Last year's survey revealed average speed during the day was below 90 km/hr anyway on State Highway 2.

Hardly anybody speeds along this road. It's almost impossible unless it's late at night. Just another dumb rule that's going to do no good to anyone apart from the police. It's not the road, not the speed but individual driver error that causes car crashes, and that's the bottom line of it really. Distracted drivers playing on mobiles is the biggest cause. I'd like to know what others think of it. At 80 km/h, you would be lucky if you can get out of third gear,

F de Graaf, Katikati.