Seven years ago, when we first moved to Welcome Bay, the underpass was muted. We thought what a great idea, as we travelled through a traffic backlog to work daily, and voted for TCC Councillors who supported the underpass.

But nothing happened, instead we got the roundabouts and lights.

These seem to be working, and at a great cost, despite not being the preferred solution. Mike Baker's letter ‘Route K: Questions still remain' - I fully support it would be madness to spend all that money, at ratepayers' expense, just to move traffic to the one-way bridge at Turret Road. It'd just achieve the same congested result. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to spend the monies on the bridge, so the traffic could flow better?

And as for the massive pohutukawa trees, shutting out sun and view to all on Turret Rd, they could go and another lane and possibly another bridge could go in their place.

I'm a mere woman and just a taxpayer, so I don't have the great mind of those who action these things - they're just thoughts. But the underpass is over for me. Let's move on.

P Robinson, Welcome Bay.