After reading two articles in your latest publication I felt slightly nauseous. Typical Tauranga, that should be our city slogan.
Is it just me or are we always falling short or missing the boat or a combination of both, and when we do have something successful, we ruin it.
Our new events centre the council are going ‘look at us we're doing something,' is it big enough, bright enough or have a point of difference to entice big events here now. Dunedin is spending 200+m on theirs and Hamiton just spent 70m on another. New Plymouth .....perhaps we could have a mini britomart patrons could park in the CBD and catch the train to events at Baypark, might be a bit hard though the parking buildings might have to be open on weekends and when its dark.
Blues brews and bbqs, to raise money for charity and you would think the council would get in behind it to make it even more successful. No way, let's get dictated by the Regional Police Commander and change everything!
A successful mid week event that is supported and patronised both locally and from outside the region are few and far between, there's too much other things going on in mid summer for businesses to support it on a Saturday let alone get patrons there. Why not try and fix the problem as it is, Why for instance is the bus plan which is used for New Years be put in place, a secure carpark setup whereby cars cant be picked up till the following day, random breath testing at entrance if over limit told to go away till under, leave alcatraz set up and throw any idiots in there, or in 2012 lets go to blues brew and bbq's in Whakatane.
Murray Farquhar, Tauranga.