Road campaign ‘political soapbox’

I'm beginning to think that, despite what Simon Bridges, and many others, are saying regarding ‘fixing the bloody road', Bridges is clutching at straws. He's merely using the ‘Fix the Bloody Road' campaign as a political soapbox.

There is nothing wrong with this road, or many of our other roads for that matter; it's the people that use them that are the problem.

As long as there are motor vehicles sold with all the unnecessary switches, knobs and gadgets and cell phone use etc., all of which seriously detract from actually paying attention and driving, then these so called ‘accidents', read ‘incidents', will continue to happen.

Sure, it would be great to have four-lane highways all across New Zealand, complete with concrete barriers and safety nets.

But we would still have incompetent and stupid drivers so the carnage would continue no doubt.

And just throwing huge amounts of money at this national problem certainly isn't the solution.

These problem drivers need to be rooted out and dealt with in an effective manner, either retraining or otherwise, making the roads safer for all of us.

P Kelly, Te Puna.

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