No choice but to change the way we get around

GRAHAM Woods’ letter on Dunedin traffic is completely missing the point (Letters, 4.2.21).

He states that these proposals of the Dunedin City Council ‘‘do not recognise the New Zealand way of life’’.

The point is our way of life in that regard has to change. ‘‘Same old, same old’’ won’t cut it any more — global warming is taking care of that.

As for ‘‘tampering’’ with proposals for oneway traffic that he claims makes no sense, it works perfectly well in Wellington and Christchurch where oneway streets skirt and/or go right through the heart of these cities.

As for ‘‘killing off main street shopping’’, I note an article just last week about businesses clamouring to rent vacated shops right where the oneway system may run.

I’d suggest the owners of these businesses know the sky isn’t going to fall as some people are predicting.

The ‘‘new norm’’ will be using provided public transport, maybe cycling and, god forbid for some people, actually walking to get where they need to be.

Compromise has to be made, and inflammatory rhetoric doesn’t contribute positively to that process in any way at all.

Graham Bulman

Roslyn

Veal question

AMONG the many pleasures of subscribing to the Otago Daily Times, the material generated by your own columnists is, to me, very important.

In particular, I enjoy the wellinformed views eloquently expressed by Anna Campbell in her regular Fence Lines column. It is evident that her specialist knowledge of the business of agriculture is combined with a broad experience of life both in New Zealand and overseas.

Noone, therefore, could be better positioned to explain why there is virtually no veal industry in New Zealand.

As she will know, in just about any country most of us regard as civilised, veal is readily available — but here in New Zealand I am met with blank expressions when I ask for veal in restaurants, supermarkets or butcher shops.

Can Ms Campbell shed light on this unhappy situation?

Julian Faigan

Roslyn