Council gets it right
On Father’s Day, my husband and I with our two daughters, aged 6 and 8, went for a bike ride. Crossing at the Shakespeare St roundabout for the first time since the new safety measures were put in place was amazing. All four of us could safely wait in the middle until it was clear to cross, and the slower pace the cars went through lowered our anxiety immensely. From there it was a smooth, safe, fun ride for us all the way out to the Bikery cafe to enjoy a Father’s Day treat. The whole time my husband and I kept saying how amazing the bike path was, and how grateful we are to have this in our town. We know there’s been plenty of negative feedback so I just wanted to take the time to sincerely thank the Waipa District Council for creating this amazing asset for our town, and making it so safe to get out for a family bike ride.
Mel Moore
Cambridge
See: News …. in brief – Fathers’ Day on a roll
Bike rack full: Parked up following a 7.5km ride for Father’s Day. Photo: Supplied.
Rate take
My daughter in Auckland has been complaining about her rates. She lives in Pt Chevalier where her children can walk to all schools, without crossing any busy roads
She has a good beach, Zoo, Motat, library and a good shopping centre all within walking distance with a bus service a street away.
Comparing her rates to mine, based on capital value, she is very lucky, by a factor of nearly 50%.
Murray Reid
Leamington
Tower debate
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a letter to your paper in support of repairing the historic water tower. In letters (August 29) I came under attack from one of your readers, Kelvin Dunn.
Just thought I would clear a few things up. Firstly I wrote in my letter that there are a lot of things in this county, Waipa county, that money is spent on that don’t particularly interest me, but we all pay for. Your paper printed the word country not county that I had written. Probably spell check. He called the water tower a pile of old bricks. Well that’s pretty mild to what I call the “raised platforms” we are all forced to drive over throughout the town. How much did they all cost? How many ratepayers wanted them.?
Secondly, I mentioned that if the tower had been built pre-European times no one would dare pull it down. I think most people understood what I meant by that but to make it more simple for some, no one would put a bulldozer through an old historic pa site now days and rightly so – but here we have people wanting to destroy part of the town’s history.
I hope that clears some things up and, by the way, I do support the town library, and I do read books which include New Zealand history.
Bruce Turner
Cambridge
Save the Cambridge Water Tower group founders, from left, Dave Linthwaite, Elizabeth Harvey, Peter Fulton, David Griffin, James Casey, Mike Kilgour. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Letters to Editor. Photo: Pixabay
