Bay Harbour: September 06, 2017

Wednesday September 6 2017
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BAY HARBOUR
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Don’t let’s ignore it completely,
Sumner is such a beautiful place,
there’s not many places in the
world where you can you sit on
the beach and enjoy the amazing
views we have there with the
snow-covered mountains in all
their glory and the sweep of the
coast – true beauty.
Don’t let’s knock it and say it
won’t work, let’s look at whether
it could work.
should be made to keep to the
route they have been using since
2011. Absolute madness.
We said:
NZTA asked a Little
River group to remove the
road signs it made asking
motorists to slow down
You said:
We said:
Opponents of mountain
bike trails in Urumau
Reserve have been
accused of underhand
tactics after a letter
box drop encouraged
people to “vote no”
to a proposed new
management plan.
You said:
Craig Minehan – Re: The
“vote no” campaign, I don’t
think it’s misleading.
The Lyttelton reserves
management committee has
been heavily stacked with
mountain bikers, very vocal in
support of more trails; a lot of
people in Lyttelton don’t want
more trails, but the noise from
the pro side has been making it
seem otherwise.
It should be pointed out that
people such as Mr Hollister
have a vested interest . . . he sells
mountain bikes.
I live below the reserve
and don’t want to see it
developed further; there are
many tracks already and there
will be issues with erosion and
water run-off.
We said:
New steel crash barriers
will go up at the site of a
fatal crash on Main Rd.
You said:
Heather Wilkins – Does
that mean that at every accident
site these barriers will be put
up ? How many fatal ones have
there been out Templeton/
Rolleston way and other areas? If
the barriers were already in place
when the accident happened,
Bruce Imrie’s wife may still have
died.
Pamela Neil – Why are
large trucks going to be allowed
through Sumner again? They
Vicki Jerome – We’re not
Little River residents, we live
on the far side of the hill just
above Barry’s Bay, but we definitely
think the sign should be
returned.
It’s ridiculous and frustrating
that NZTA won’t allow the
speed limit to be reduced to
50km/h.
Its reasoning, I believe, is that
only one side of the main road
is built-up residentially, but all
David Scarlett and his NZTA
staff need to do is to park up
near either end of the township
centre, just beyond the garage on
the Christchurch side or just beyond
the cafe next to the silos on
the Akaroa side, and observe the
activity for an hour or two – and
this is on most days, although,
of course, even busier at the
weekend.
What is happening is that
vehicles coming from the
Akaroa side often stop along the
roadside, and then the occupants
cross over to the many
businesses on the other side of
the road, rather than turning
across oncoming traffic into the
small parking area there.
There is, after all, a shop, two
cafes, an art gallery, a vet clinic,
the Craft Station, a petrol station
which one would not want to
drive into and block the pumps
if just buying an ice cream or pie,
as well as the interesting walks
around the old railway station
and little garden.
Perhaps NZTA staff also
haven’t noticed that across the
road from all this activity is
the service centre and library,
including postal services,
sometimes used by staff from
the businesses or neighbouring
residents, as well as passers-by
coming from Christchurch.
When driving through Little
River, which we do on at least
one day a week, we always
see cars, motor-cycles, even
campervans and trucks, parked
on both sides of the road with
pedestrians crossing the road
in both directions, often with
children and vehicles pulling in
and out, sometimes requiring
through-traffic to brake quickly
if travelling at even 60km/h,
which we already do not exceed.
Return the sign.
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