Manawatu Standard

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Has NZ Post lost the plot? Putting up postage again. Fewer letters than ever will be sent. This is their motive.

Just drove over Saddle Rd. Forget cycle lanes. Just get a new road ASAP. N9

The pyramids still standing perfect today, yet our best engineers can’t design a highway on Ka¯piti Coast to last two years. On a relatively flat surface, it’s buggered and $25m to fix. And the pyramids still stand. So does the wall of China. God help us if our same engineers attempt to build the new gorge replacemen­t road over the hill. Marty

Has anyone from the generous city council had a look at the stinking weed-clogged Milson stream, from Apollo to JFK lately? It’s a disgrace.

Tiny minority dictating and stopping street art. What’s worse is they are listened to. Baby chicks are killed more humanely than by their counterpar­ts in the wild.

Massey’s cold refusal to Don Brash’s visit, but a warm welcome to Ta¯me Iti, is not racial. No it isn’t, it really isn’t? Marjie

Re article by Janine Rankin about dogs in central city. I, along with many others I know, don’t bother visiting because of this idiotic decision by our useless councillor­s. Who wants to view a mongrel defecating while you’re eating your brunch? Yuck.

Cycleways, what a laugh. The one in Te Matai is all grown over from lack of use. Cyclists use the road three and four abreast. If a cycleway is supplied it should be compulsory to use it.

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