Good to see one rational decision from the ‘how can we waste more money?' team. They have dropped the plan to rearrange the busiest streets in the Mount. Good.

They still intend to carry on with the Marine Parade folly as well as investigating extending the shared boardwalk from the Cenotaph to Oceanbeach Road. If they do one, they won't need the other and I'm pretty sure I know which one most people would choose.

The problem is, council people, as soon as you decide that a road needs to be made safer, road functionality suffers. You remove car parks, you put in cycle lanes, you put in pedestrian refuges and speed humps and you restrict speed even further. You don't even have to worry about the cost because the carriageway is already there and paid for by the motorists.

The boardwalk will tick all the boxes; your bikes, pedestrians, runners, scooters and skateboards can all use it and the cars and serious cyclists can get on with it in perfect safety. All I ask is that you put in a bit more parking.

Dan Russell, Tauranga.