This is really getting out of control,I thought the government is made out of people and these leaders of SAMOA should respect the wishes of our people,I think majority of people is still remaining the same from the beginning of this issue.I live in Hawaii with my family and it's irritated when something like this is been going on for such a long time without a peaceful solution.Our leaders should really look deep into this RHD or LHD,as for our prime minister,don't forget that you are also elected into office and I hope that this will influence the mind of your district for the up the coming elction again.E sa'o lelei lava le upu a leisi toeaina matua o le matou nu'u,"O LE POLOKIKI O LE POLO E KIKI"e kiki lava se'ia o'o lava na pa...O le tatou minisita e le'o se tagata fautuaina,aisea o le a toe suia ai le mea o lo'o tele atu ai tupe mo le malo o Samoa aua le tiuteina o ta'avale e avatu i fafo i hawaii ma amerika,ia o ai na iai i na mea po'o iai fo'i ni mea fa'alilolilo o fai i lalo o le laulau ha ha ha. manuia le fa'afofoaga samoa atoa,tatou lafo tasi ia i le atua le tatou manaoga o le tatou fesoasoani sili lena,ae tu'u ai pea le au fai mea pi'opi'o ia aua o le taui lava o le nu'u o ilo......D.Tuigamala

It sounds to me our government are going backwards, so are you telling me if they vote against it, they will loose their benefit, that's a blackmail. Hell what happen with the people who put them their? Do they ever think about them? Well my beloved people, if this thing ever pass, don't worry the election is coming ahead, make sure elect the person you know she/he will care for you in the future.

Good luck to you all........

Right Hand is my sexy side anyway.

Se ua leai se vaipanoa e le i oo i ai ni fautuaga ma ni manatu i le nei mataupu (RHD). O lea foi ua faaali ou lua finagalo ou lua ia e i luga, ia o manatu foi sa faaalia muamua e nisi. Pau le mea o le tatalo i le silisiliese e alofagia le atunuu i nei faiga matautia ua i ai. Leaga o le mea tonu, e le na o se alofa i tagata lautele ia maua ni a latou taavale taugofie i lo'u talitonuga le uiga o lea "bill" o faatulai mai, o la'u vaai, o le la e faasaga le PM ma le HRPP i le faiga palota o lumanai,aua a malie lava tagata lautele ua maua ni na i taavale taugofie e o ai i le maumaga ma fai ai feau, e manatua lava sui o le HRPP i le taimi o le palota. O lona uiga, o le faatosina vaai mamao le uiga o lea mataupu e ui i na matua i sili ona faavalevalea i le vaai a tagata e iloa fuafua ma mafaufau.

finagalo ia i se mea o le a i ai, e tele le Atua e puipui i le atunuu o Samoa mai faafitauli, e tele atu na i lo le palemia ma ia polokiki o fai nei.

regards to all

Talofa lava, Ia faatoa foi mai lau malaga

It sounds to me our government are going backwards, so are you telling me if they vote against it, they will loose their benefit, that's a blackmail

Where in the story does it say this? It is this type of emotional claptrap that PASS is fuelling that is not really helpful to the debate. Anti-RHD supporters (by no means the majority of the country as reported ad nauseum by the biased media) need to calm the hell down.

This "1.5 billion" dollar "loss" to the economy is purely and simply the re-sale values of depreciated LHD vehicles. That is it. Why would these so-called business people buy a vehicle just re-sell it to another poor sucker at a reduced but still very high price? It tells me that the the guy didn't want to buy the vehicle to keep in the first place, but just to keep the prices for vehicles artifically high. That shuts out most people from kua from entering the market.

Good on you Prime Minister. I support your efforts to even out the playing field and looking out for the poorer people of our country.

Support? Yeah right.

Why has the large Ferry from Savaii (Lady Samoa) been scheduled for maintenance on Monday? When it's usually Tuesdays? Scared of all the protesters coming from the big island?
Police have been seen taking down the NO TO RHD SWITCH signs/crosses. Why???

Onosai ia, le ua kakou kusi aao iai, e avea ma o kakou kaikai. Kakou kakalo,,, aua se manuia o Samoa.. O mea ikagia o mea manuia ia... o mea upu ia,,, o le manuia lea... Afai ua kakou kusi lima,,, koe kikilo poo fea sa e ekisi ai, o le kali e sau mai ga.... alofa aku...

You're not like him Tuilaepa.... I wish you would've lead with the compassionate heart like Tofilau Alesana did.

We'll pray for you!

Talofa, I have read some of the comments and would like to help you (olo) understand the issue more clearly by directing you to the PASS Committee website www.passkomiti.ws where you can read the IPES submission and verify what constitutes the 1.5 billon dollar COST!
Faafetai.

I am very disturbed by the unfading position of govermrnt to consider the concern of the general public regarding the RHD switch policy. People from all walks of life, the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the educated and the layman on the street have protested, marched and voiced strong opinions about the impact of the RHD switch to the public safety and well being. Yet, the PM is unyieling and unmoved but continue to push his poors' benefit from it...WHAT NONSENSE!

The ARROGANCE protrayed by the PM shouldn't be tolerated at any stretch of the imagination...he works for the people who put him there in the first palce. No matter how strong his conviction about the RHD policy, the people have spoken and he should LISTEN, not being steadfast stubborn and act like a dictator. Otherwise all this talk about democracy is nothing but a bunch of BULL...remember Abraham Lincoln "Government is the people...." not him and his cronies in parliament.

God Bless SAMOA,

ALbert M. To'o

For all the so-called 'facts' and 'figures', the CoC submission actually doesn't produce any evidence to LINK the so-called dangers to safety and driving on the left-hand side of the road with RHD cars. Given that this is the constitutional right that PASS is saying is being infringed (Article 5 - Right not to be deprived of life), it is surprising how little "facts" and "figures" are produced to say that if we switch to RHD, we can expect X number of people to die on the roads directly as a result of 'blindspot' issues to do with LHD cars driving on hte left hand side of the road. The submission was relying on heresay and assumptions that people will die. Well, as the saying goes, assumptions make an Ass (donkey) of you and I.

It is also hilarious how the legal action will be based totally on Article 5. It is ridiculous that article 5 will be infringed because there is simply no evidence to support the assumption that people will die because of RHD. People die because of drink-driving, speeding, taking the eyes off the road to text or argue or whatever, but very very little because they were simply driving on one side of the road. Road-users must concentrate totally on what is in front of them. If they do, nothing should go wrong. Even if children come out of nowhere and run across the road. If they aren't concentrating and driving to the conditions, then their negligence level rises and things could go wrong. Samoans who come to NZ and drive on the "wrong" side of the road don't crash because of their habits of a lifetime. They crash because they drink then drive, or because they are speeding. In Sweden, when they switched, crashes actually went down because everyone took extra caution on the roads. Sweden has thousands more cars on their roads then Samoa.

It is also interesting there is NOTHING in the constitution which protects the re-sale values of depreciating vehicles - which is the main gripe of PASS people - money, money, money. The constitution does not protect depreciating vehicles. So, constitutionally, the argument that this is undemocratic and dictatorial is wide of the mark.

Olo, you have the cart before the horse.

Please present figures and facts on the benefits of the switch and then you can comment on the figures presented against.

[crickets]

Yeah thats right.

What do you expect if things are done in a rush?? If the PM and the Human Rights Provocative Party didn't try to pass this piece of rubbish I mean bill in such a short time without consulting the people first via a referendum, I think the PASS people would have been able to satisfy your desire for facts. What I sense in what you wrote is that you are after a research by the PASS that reveals the IQs of people, their blood presssure, their knowing left from right, their eating habits etc.

You are right, people would take extra care when we are in a new situation on the road, but IPES and others have brought their estimate of the cost of a change to the table. Apart from the financial costs, the head ache costs is just too much, it would probably take a whole year or more for people to get use to such head aches on the daily basis. What about people laughing at us having most of the cars as LHDs and driving on the wrong side of the road? There is no good governance being revealed in this whole scenerio called "haste or rush" into passing this HRPP Right Hand Dumb bill, it is what you do to little children who are yet to know how to think for themselves .

Serves you all right for not voting for SDUP in 2006 I suggest you vote in the SDUP in 2011.

Until then, enjoy the HRPi'opi'o ride.