Why did councillors allow council staff to blindside them on a public relations disaster, like having Tauranga City Council parking wardens impose instant fines for bald tyres.

Unbelievable, and the TCC staff involved need to be severely rapped over the knuckles and taken to task with any repetition resulting in DCM (Don't Come Monday) action.

Certainly car owners/motorists with bald tyres need heavy fines and cars ordered off the road, but that is something for traffic police to enforce – not people employed by TCC ratepayers at significant cost and in increasing numbers. TCC's transportation ‘nerve centre' seems to have an agenda and a mind of its own – I assume this outfit was responsible for the recent expensive Elizabeth St upgrade and almost certainly for Girven Rd/Grenada St, Hawea St and Paterson St realignments barriers and islands just completed – an arrant waste of TCC ratepayers' money to meet March 31 deadlines.

Tauranga people – go take a drive around town and see what TCC ratepayers' money is still wasted on.

The above is just a fraction of it.

R Paterson, Matapihi.


EDITOR'S NOTE:

Tauranga City Council announced Monday evening it was holding off plans for parking wardens to fine motorists for dangerous tyres, as part of the TWIRL campaign.
A decision with what is happening long term with the matter will be released soon. The parking wardens were only ever to take part in the tyre checks component of TWIRL, with police proceeding with the campaign by checking vehicles' tyres, windscreen, wipers, mirrors, indicators, rust and lights.