How encouraging reading two separate letters from Maureen Guy and Josh Cole in the June 18 Weekend Sun letters (page 30), supporting passenger rail for the Tauranga region.

It seems insane that authorities continue to persist wasting billions solving nothing by building interchanges and four-lane roads parallel and next to existing, under-utilised rail corridors.

Both for passenger rail and freight, rail offers a perfect solution as our earth faces an unprecedented climate crisis. Properly done, rail transportation could immediately greatly reduce carbon emissions by more than 30 per cent, solve congestion, limit consumerism and benefit the populace. My ‘Omni-Solutions 2021' document submission to the Long Term Plans of BOPRC, TCC, commissioners, TCC Roading Engineer etc extolls such visionary ways of doing things better.

I hope they actually take some notice rather than disinterestedly ignoring any suggestion of light rail. For example, allow for future light rail in the $45 million revamp of Cameron Road. Anonymity for poor decisions, wasted public monies and failures exemplified by the abandoned $21.5m transport hub is scandalous and unacceptable.

Presently, BOPRC dictates hundreds of buses as their transport solution. Responsibility for decisions, directions, success or failures must be directly answerable by individual named persons even up to ministerial level, most of whom remain in denial of the rail opportunities.

No more hiding behind reports, consultants, committees, bureaucracy and excuses. Meanwhile, and unfortunately to the planets demise, the predictable but lamentable fiasco seems to continue.

Jos Nagels, Brookfield.