Letter: Island Bay drivers fit to be on the road?
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OPINION: Wellington City Council has at last recognised that we car drivers need to reduce speed through our suburbs - as my latest mailbox flier in Island Bay tells me (Are Kiwi drivers fit to be on the road?, March 15).
I very much doubt it will stop those drivers who blatantly fail to stop at the compulsory stop intersections at both Medway St and Mersey St on to The Parade.
I have sat in the cafe opposite the Medway intersection, and waited for my fish and chips, counting the cars that never stop - without fail, it is 100 per cent, unless, of course, there is a car coming, and thankfully then they do.
Just what will the council do about it?
JUDY SHONE
Island Bay
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There's no fish and chip shop opposite the Medway intersection, and in fact none of the fish and chips shops in the shopping centre give you any view of Medway. And the Medway Street / Parade intersection is a "give way" not a stop.
Regardless of those inaccuracies, given that the proposed speed reduction is only for 2 blocks of the Parade, and is not on any side streets, it will only serve to make the Medway intersection worse as drivers trying to get through it will now be faced with a steady stream of slow dribblers on both sides of the road.