Letters to the Editor
Second or third?
Katie Mayes
Why does Waipa District Council in the form of Katie Mayes, Cambridge Connections Executive Director, persist with the disingenuous and misleading phrase “third bridge” when talking about future transport needs in Cambridge (The News November 13)?
With the intended closure of the current high level bridge to vehicular traffic the proposed new bridge, wherever it might be at some unknown future date, will be a second bridge and should be referred to as such. It’s a small but important distinction. Closing the current high level bridge makes no sense if the intention with the “reset” is to improve and balance traffic movements.
It should be retained and in time either strengthened or replaced whichever is most appropriate. Closing it will, with the significant increase in truck movements in coming years due to the sand pit consent, merely exacerbate the congestion caused by those who will have to travel to town via the low level bridge.
The second bridge needs to be located for convenient access to town and not become just a more circuitous route that will be avoided because of its inconvenience! Time is of the essence in choosing a site given the town’s rapid expansion.
Kelvin Dunn
Leamington
Waterway health
By the emotive response from the regional councillors who have tried to justify, and refute, what I wrote about the apparent reluctance of some councillors in the arena of environmental protection, I suspect that a nerve may have been touched
By using the same emotive, economic reasoning, to justify holding up implementation, or investigations, into reducing run off and leaching, show that there is little collective will on the part of certain sectors to think beyond financial gains.
The health of the waterways and the future wellness of our people should be the collective wish of any person who cares about the collective rather than the individual
No, I’m not a rabid socialist, nor a particularly liberal person, but I grew up watching, smelling and choking on the peat fires of the Waikato district and who now sees great swathes of countryside denuded of hedges, shelter trees and fenced off swamps which would improve the well-being of the animals and the environment, and the wildlife, that is under ever increasing pressure
I remain an optimist in the future for all our descendants, and hopefully more people will, in time, come to that place
Alice Hicks
Cambridge
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