Letters to the Editor

Choking Greerton

Why can't Tauranga City Council and NZTA aspire to wider roads, instead of digging up sound, paid-for sealed roads? K Evans is probably right in saying we are pandering... Read More

New underpass defies belief

The speculative $13 million cost to install a brand-new underpass under Maunganui Road from Matapihi Road, accessing Bayfair, defies belief. The existing underpass,... Read More

Really, Jan?

So, Jan Tinetti, you think it's great that roads are being built and improved in Tauranga? 'Things are booming,” you say (The Weekend Sun, November 16). Obviously... Read More

Knowing your right from your left

Increasingly, it seems that quite a few people don't know their right from their left side of the road. They've obviously never read the Road Code. At least once... Read More

Fix Belk Road

To all those people who wonder what the fuss is regarding the Belk Road intersection with State Highway 29, there is no turning bay coming from McLaren Falls to... Read More

Have a say on harmful gambling

Re ‘GMA urges public to look at other side of gaming' (SunLive, November 8). The Gaming Machine Association says $14 million a year is received by clubs and... Read More

Pathetic pandering to pedal pushers

Someone will suffer, some may lose their home and someone may die! I raise these points because a serious mistake has been made by Tauranga City Council. For example,... Read More

Ripped off in so many ways

A Bourne's letter stating that we are being ripped off over petrol prices (The Weekend Sun, November 9) is indeed mumbo jumbo. But if any of you feel the same way... Read More

Church should pay

Last week's letters (The Weekend Sun, November 9) suggest we upset the Anglican and tribal elites by our earlier statement that, as the fee simple owner of the... Read More

Speed camera for Kaitemako

If the rumour of some speed cameras heading toward the Bay of Plenty is true, can we get a couple installed on the Kaitemako racetrack in Welcome Bay? Going on current... Read More

Maundering over book

M Maunder of Otumoetai is certainly ‘maundering' (talking in a rambling, foolish or meaningless way) when, in a recent letter to The Weekend Sun (November... Read More

Sport, not war

On viewing the All Blacks v England game at Twickenham, I listened to the British rugby fans singing their hearts out to drown the All Blacks haka but was astonished... Read More