Your correspondent Sonia Smith is quite right to question my promoting to Gisborne District Council a Tutira to Te Pohue road connection when the route isn't even in our district — and congratulations to her group in obtaining a feasibility study on their alignment option adjacent to the railway to Napier. But where is the result of that study? Has it been completed, and the findings made available to their group or the public? My efforts in the 1990s on the Tutira to Te Pohue connection were on a different tack — a shortcut from northern Hawke's Bay, Wairoa and Tairawhiti/Gisborne to Taupo and the central volcanic plateau — with the added advantage of a bypass route to Napier in the event of closure of the tortuous Lake Tutira and Devil's Elbow section of SH2.

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