Hoping common sense prevails over hospital traffic changes

I HAVE seen articles recently about possible changes to the streets surrounding the new Dunedin Hospital site.

One concerning option is if the NZ Transport Agency chooses to make both oneway streets twoway. The impact of already congested roads would be significant on all Dunedin drivers, along with those moving through the city on State Highway 1.

Can you imagine large trucks holding up traffic, and no ability to pass.

Long delays at traffic lights, and traffic stretching for miles with all drivers driving at the speed of the slowest vehicle ahead of them.

We often see this in the various roadwork areas that take place on oneway roads when reduced to one lane.

I cannot think of another city in New Zealand that does not have twolane oneway street systems assisting traffic flow — even small centres like Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton have twolane streets heading north and south.

Hopefully, common sense prevails and Dunedin can maintain a full dual oneway street system along with the traffic flow we are used to.

A. Anderson

Dunedin

Saving water

EVERY day I hear things like, ‘‘save the whitebait’’, ‘‘save the whales’’, ‘‘ban smoking’’, all those sort of things.

But noone seems to be trying to stop our Government from allowing people to sell off our precious water. There are already places in the world where water shortages are becoming critical. It’s not an easy thing to fix, not like allowing our rivers to be polluted. A few billion will fix what never should have happened. Water shortage cannot be fixed with a few billion because noone will sell it.

Plenty of people parties out there to make an issue, now stop saving the worm and do the more important thing. M.A. Smits

St Kilda ...................................

BIBLE READING: Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. — Psalm 118:1.