Review of road waste of money

Every year, when collecting taxes, the Government and local authorities demand money with menaces from New Zealand tax and ratepayers.

Surely they have an obligation not to waste that money.

Yet they do. In South Wairarapa last year a honeymooning tourist, who was without his new wife and drunk enough to be over the legal blood alcohol limit, went out driving to "see the stars".

In the early hours of the morning, a time in which fatigue-caused crashes are common, the tourist’s car drifted off a narrow country road at 100km/h.

The driver lost control and the car rolled, killing the unseat-belted driver.

Now the police are demanding that the local authority, at ratepayers’ expense, carry out an expensive and unnecessary formal review of the speed limit on that country road.

It is situations such as this that clearly show a lot of taxpayer and ratepayers’ money is being wasted unnecessarily. ALLAN KIRK Masterton