With Dunedin coming to a standstill in the snow, it is worth thinking that 50-odd years ago the trains, the trams and the cable cars would all have been entirely unaffected by this weather and the whole public transport system up and running.
I wonder, too, why in a country with gravel roads from Cape Reinga to Bluff, ice from Auckland south, and snow in most places, there is absolutely nowhere one can go and learn, in safety, how to control a car in a skid and practice driving on icy roads.
And like your correspondent Ian Williams, I wonder about the new, super smooth, seal laid on the shadiest and iciest stretch of State Highway 88 to Port Chalmers.
Tony Williams
St Leonards
[The Southern Hemisphere Proving Ground on the Pisa Range sometimes offers group training courses. - Ed]
• In recognition of the importance of readers' contribution to the letters page, the newspaper each week selects a Letter of the Week, with a book prize courtesy of Dunedin publisher Longacre Press.
This week's winner is Tony Williams, of St Leonard's. He receives a copy of Kate de Goldi's The 10PM Question, Longacre Press, $29.99.
