Tackle traffic woes with roundabouts and one-way streets

It might be time to consider having yellow no-parking lines on one side of every street in Devonport, Belmont and Takapuna.

Most of these roads were designed for quarter-acre sections with one-storey single houses on them, not the current proliferation of three-storey, multi-unit apartments and townhouses, etc.

Roads like Northboro Rd in Belmont are becoming an increasing nightmare to try and drive along. Traffic is increasingly banking up and nearly impossible to get through. Also, more vehicles are using these back roads as an alternative shortcut to an already very congested Lake Road.

At 3pm on most weekdays, traffic on Lake Rd is already banked up from the Belmont traffic lights to the golf course.

In addition, more and more boats, trailers and caravans are being permanently parked on the sides of these roads adding to the congestion.

In a major emergency, with the effects of