It's lovely that the New Zealand Transport Agency has finally taken the kinks out of the Arden Cottage Curves at Athenree at a cost of $5m. But the NZTA is still missing the main state highway project desperately neded in the Western bay – and that is a bypass for Katikati.

Half of the $5m used to straighten the curves would enough to take all of the heavy, noisy, smelly traffic out of Katikati's main street.

The land is owned and designated – it just needs to be used instead of sitting there for two decades doing nothing.

K Morland, Katikati.