Rates pain
Rates are not the only thing that is causing pain to our community, and it may be possible to alleviate two at the same time.
I am referring as many others have to the ‘speed bumps’ appearing with monotonous regularity on our streets at great expense. Are these even legal, slowing traffic down to 25kph in areas it is legally entitled to travel at 40 or even 50kph?
Even Hamilton Road has not escaped them, what a welcome to our town! I’m just waiting for them to appear all the way down Victoria Road then we really will be known as “Bunny-town” or “Hop-it-on”.
Has anyone carried out a cost-benefit analysis or has our council just got on the bandwagon of the latest bureaucratic fad? We all know the ‘cheap’ $270k improvements to the Shakespeare Street roundabout and pedestrian crossing caused unintended safety consequences for truck drivers.
I appreciate councillors who will bear the consequences of the ‘rates pain’ do not delve into the day-to-day management of engineers and other council employees who are responsible for implementing such ‘innovations’. They should however question the need for them, understand the cost/benefit and hold those responsible to account for their decisions.
One wonders how many other expensive initiatives have been foisted upon us which if forgone could help provide some rates relief?
Ray Milner
Cambridge
Right road
NZTA are correct in their stance to minimise on/off ramps. A dual highway’s main function is to move large numbers of vehicles swiftly over long distances.
Auckland’s motorway system is a shambles because it has developed into a means to move, very slowly, cars from one suburb to another.
The Waikato Expressway will get a new interchange somewhere south of Tamahere when the Southern Link is built and there will be pressure for another at or near Peake Rd when Waipa District Council finally concedes that a third river crossing for Cambridge is a priority.
Murray Reid
Cambridge
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