On the causeway from the Mount to Tauranga to Bethlehem the speed limit is clearly marked as 80km/hr.

Almost no one obeys this reasonable speed and speed cameras would have a field day along this route. I'm constantly amazed at how people in Tauranga drive too fast, drive too close and often don't have their lights on when it is dark.

Some people may be amazed to know it's $150 fine if you go through an orange light when you can reasonably stop. Police enforce this rule.

Perhaps the saddest indictment on Tauranga's bad driving and bad sign placement is the 70km/hr sign just before the roundabout on Mount Maunganui Rd, south just past the college. An incredible amount of people, frustrated at the 50km/hr speed limit, seem to think it's carte blanche to accelerate into the roundabout and career around it dangerously. It's with real sadness I saw a cross erected at the roundabout for a fatality.
Entering roundabouts at high speed is a common Tauranga past-time leaving little room for error.

At the roundabout heading to Welcome Bay, I was amazed to see a family in a small car travel round the roundabout the wrong way - twice.

Paul Knights, Mount Maunganui.