Tauranga City Council's answer to improving infrastructure is by creating Traffic Light Tauranga and Round About Mount, along with reducing two-lane roads to one lane, including in-lane bus stops, to make way for bus queue jumps and dangerous two-way cycle lanes.

Supposedly, this is all in improving safety for everyone and ensuring our empty buses run on time and are frequent.

These changes will certainly slow down traffic and bring it to a standstill at peak times, frustrate drivers and make it harder for emergency vehicles.

TCC, along with the help of SunLive, have been very proactive in giving ratepayers and residents the opportunity to have their say in particular around ‘Making Otumoetai Peninsula Accessible'. So come on everyone get on board and have your say – it's important! It's no good moaning about it after it's happened!

Kim Bailey, Bureta.