Bay Harbour: October 04, 2017

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Wednesday October 4 2017
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Port urged to leave
ferry service alone
Diamond Harbour
resident and Banks
Peninsula Community
Board Mt Herbert
representative, Felix
Dawson, is unhappy
with proposed
changes to the ferry
terminal
Lyttelton Port Company is currently in
the process of upgrading the Diamond
Harbour ferry terminal services. This
includes a re-configured waiting area,
replacement of the previously removed
pedestrian bridge and reduction of the bus
parking area. The reduced bus area will
exclude the opportunity for car drop-offs
on the wharf, and possibly remove the bus
pick-up service, relocating it to Norwich
Quay. So the ferry upgrade involves a
reduction in service.
Black Cat has recently advised the
Banks Peninsula Community Board
that the ferry service provides more than
100,000 passenger trips annually. This
is made up of residents and visitors. For
Diamond Harbour residents, the alternative
transport option is a 35min winding
drive. A recent slip off the side of the road
in Church Bay has reduced the road to
one lane. Any more slippage and the road
is gone, with the only alternative a back
road – little more than a badly paved stock
route currently littered with sink holes,
arising it would seem from a poorly laid
sewer. If these roads become unusable –
which is possible – the ferry becomes the
only access to Diamond Harbour.
The ferry service matters.
LPC is currently proposing to reduce the
service to “make better utilisation of the
land”. That is, to provide car parks for its
staff who are being shifted into their new
offices about 400m away. So is the best utilisation
car parking for about 100 people
or public transport for 100,000?
What is it with LPC? When it applied for
a 40ha land reclamation consent, it argued
that among other benefits, it would enable
logs to be shifted from in front of Norwich
Quay. It has reclaimed about 10ha which
is now covered in newly-imported parked
cars. LPC recently advised the board that
moving the logs is 10 years away.
On day one of the harbour dredging
consent, the first question to LPC from the
commissioner, fresh from reading about
the new cruise ship berth to be built, was:
Is the dredging required for the cruise
ships?
The LPC representative smoothly advised
the panel that the answer was no, as
the cruise ships have a shallow draft. We
are now told that the appeal on the granting
of the dredging consent will delay the
cruise ship berth. Sorry local businesses.
Now we have a multi-million dollar
must-have office build without adequate
parking, and for the sake of one bus park
the poor old commuters will have to walk.
Come on LPC – you guys are paid the
big bucks. Do the job, do the right thing.
Start talking to the users.
Retain the current ferry service.
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