To all those people who wonder what the fuss is regarding the Belk Road intersection with State Highway 29, there is no turning bay coming from McLaren Falls to turn right into Belk Road. Your car comes around a blind corner on SH29 and you have two seconds to decide ‘do I stop in the middle of the road with the blinker on?' or ‘do I pull up hard left with one wheel up on the kerb and wait?' or ‘do I proceed to Redwood Lane, turn in, do a U-turn, cross SH29 and drive back to the Belk Road corner for a free left turn?'

A truck and trailer coming from McLaren Falls cannot stop in time for a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road waiting to turn right into Belk Road.

The NZTA draws up plans, consults, aborts those plans, draws more plans, and in four years has achieved nothing. Fix the bloody road.

V Brazier, Tauriko.