Plea to fellow Dunedin drivers: let’s try not to be such sheep

DUNEDIN drivers can be such sheep.

This morning, at rush hour on the southern motorway heading north, traffic slowed to a crawl between the Green Island and Kaikorai Valley ramps.

The reason? A road sign that indicated ‘‘in 200m merge into one lane.’’

And all the sheepish drivers, upon spotting the sign in the distance — that is, probably 300m400m early — promptly slowed and waited and let one another in and everyone merged right into one lane.

This held up hundreds of vehicles for several minutes yet, as became apparent 200m after the sign, there was no need to merge into one lane as the road works hadn’t even started yet.

Come on, Dunedin drivers. Can we be a wee bit canny while we’re driving, please?

Rochelle Crossman

East Taieri

Climate change

MAYOR Cull (ODT, 20.02.19) claims that ‘‘recent events both at home and afar have demonstrated that climate change is the most significant longterm issue facing communities throughout the world, including Dunedin.’’

He is either using scare tactics, or he has been hoodwinked by the pseudoscientific cult of climate change alarmists. To his credit, I suspect it is the latter.

Either way, the Dunedin City Council has a large problem in that the mayor and many of his councillors have taken an extremist position on the risks of climate change.

Mayor Cull seems to think that sea levels are increasing at ever faster rates. I would challenge him to provide mean sealevel measurements for Dunedin at five or 10yearly intervals for the last few decades. I think we will see that annual increases in Dunedin have been in the order of 2mm3mm with no upward trend in the last few decades.

I hope people in the Dunedin community can feel heartened by the decision of the West Coast Regional Council to reject the Zero Carbon Bill.

Our own council has been taken over by the watermelon contingent — ostensibly ‘‘green’’, but socialist red on the inside, with a penchant for an everincreasing local bureaucracy and continual grand schemes. Malcolm MoncriefSpittle

Dunedin ...................................

BIBLE READING: ‘‘For I know the plans I have for you,’’ declares the Lord, ‘‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’’ — Jeremiah 29:11.