Letter: Their vehicles are not only illegal, but just plain awful

Mr Editor, A recent reader's comment about a motorcyclist driving constantly through the middle of Avarua town requires some support.

The residents of Tupapa suffer the same fate - when this machine passes, any conversion must stop until the apparently stone-deaf driver passes.

And it's not, unfortunately, just one deaf driver, but a few, who, handicapped by loss of hearing, do not know that they are interrupting the lives and business of tourists and locals alike, uncountable times every day.

Are they operating delivery businesses? Why else the insistent back and forth rides? Could they be looking for their lost ear drums?

Can we suggest to Action Man George Maggie that he wave these drivers over and, using sign language, explain that their vehicles are not only illegal, but just plain awful.

Then of course there are our Police officers right in the middle of town. We know they are not deaf, so we have to wonder if the concrete walls of the Police station are so thick that they don't have to stop talking, or thinking, with the multiple passes of these bikes all day long.

Surely our officers too would feel some compassion for these handicapped drivers whose hearing has failed?

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