Dear Western Bay of Plenty councillors,

I'd like to know if your road safety engineers are stupid or if they do it on purpose to annoy the ratepayers? Where is the logic behind the new proposal of reducing the speed limit for the Te Puke corridor?

If, for the moment, all traffic including buses, logging trucks and cars are on this road with a 100km/h speed limit why to try to limit to 80km/h when the Tauranga Eastern Link will be open?

The road will have less heavy traffic and less trucks so we will have to slow down?

I think I see few reasons for this illogical change :

1. It is to dissuade anyone to use this road so they have to pay for the toll road. A new form of highway robbery

2. It is to penalise the people of Te Puke?

3. It is to gather more revenue from the Police speed cameras, which will catch the Te Puke drivers that keep driving at the usual speed on this stretch of road?

If this proposal is adopted and you want to give some names to the new road I have few examples:

1. Grumpy Engineers Road

2. Gathering Revenue Road

3. Te Puke don't deserve it Road

4. You stupidly vote for us Road

5. Te Puke is a laughing stock Road

I also put my full support behind the Te Puke Economic Development Group submission.

So keep the status quo and do not forget that we also can vote and remember it at the next election.

A Ventelou,Te Puke.

Editor's Note:

Western Bay of Plenty District Council declined to respond to this letter.
However, readers should note the council held public hearings this week regarding proposed speed limit changes to SH2.