Think again. Derek Paterson in his letter (Times, September 7) is right but wrong.
Based on the installation of a similar raised pedestrian crossing at the junction of Bucklands Beach and Macleans roads late last year, instead of the week-long construction period Derek suggests, in reality the crossing will take weeks to complete.
The totally unnecessary Bucklands Beach crossing took three weeks before Christmas and two further weeks in the New Year to complete (against the initial one week suggested).
Despite the almost full-time attendance by a humongous number of traffic control trucks and their operatives, locals, residents and visitors enjoyed traffic jams back to Musick Point in one direction and Highland Park in the other. Now the crossing is complete we have a wonderful speed ramp with a resultant number of car accidents.
The five or six school kids who sometimes used to cross without incident still do, but now on a crossing that cost hundreds of thousands of ratepayers’ dollars. Progress don’t come cheap.
John Whitehead
Bucklands Beach
