Pegasus Post: February 07, 2017
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PEGASUS POST Tuesday <strong>February</strong> 7 <strong>2017</strong> 5<br />
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Gardening<br />
Concerts, events could<br />
be held in red zone<br />
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CONCERTS AND other events<br />
could be held in the residential<br />
red zone to take pressure off<br />
Hagley Park.<br />
Mayor Lianne Dalziel<br />
floated the idea at a city<br />
council meeting on<br />
Thursday that holding<br />
“concerts and various<br />
other events” would be a<br />
good transitional use of<br />
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the land.<br />
It is not the first time the red<br />
zone has been suggested as a<br />
location for concerts and other<br />
big events.<br />
Hands off Hagley, the park’s<br />
watch dog group, suggested last<br />
year popular noisy events<br />
should be hosted in the<br />
residential red zone to<br />
stop damage to the park.<br />
Ms Dalziel said holding<br />
events in the red zone<br />
would “re-engage the<br />
community in the area”.<br />
The residential red zone is<br />
430ha of land, an area two and a<br />
half times the size of Hagley Park.<br />
Her comments came after city<br />
councillor Aaron Keown said<br />
that he had received a number<br />
of complaints regarding the lack<br />
of available parking at Hagley<br />
Park for events.<br />
In November the city council<br />
banned parking on the grassed<br />
areas in Hagley Park.<br />
Previously vehicles could be<br />
parked on the fields for major<br />
events, but the practice was<br />
damaging the land.<br />
Ms Dalziel said the city<br />
councillors needed an update on<br />
the parking situation.<br />
Making bus rides<br />
more enjoyable<br />
• Ashleigh Monk<br />
MAGDA Lorenzo has spent the<br />
last two months delivering books<br />
to bus stops for commuters to<br />
enjoy.<br />
Ms Lorenzo started the<br />
initiative ‘The Commuting Book’<br />
to encourage reading and the use<br />
of public transport.<br />
The idea is for people to pick<br />
up a book at their bus stop, read<br />
it while they ride the bus, then<br />
drop it off when they get to their<br />
stop.<br />
“The idea behind The<br />
Commuting Books is to create<br />
opportunities for people to<br />
engage in reading by bringing<br />
them (books) into public spaces,”<br />
she said.<br />
“I see bus stops a social hub<br />
and it’s very interesting the way<br />
you can engage in conversation<br />
with people waiting for the bus<br />
with you and sometimes the<br />
books are an excuse to do<br />
that.”<br />
Ms Lorenzo delivered the<br />
books herself on her bicycle she<br />
had named ‘Mantis’.<br />
“It depends on the weather<br />
that day; I can ride for several<br />
hours around the city. Normally<br />
I choose one of the bus routes<br />
and leave the books at the stops<br />
on that route.”<br />
Each book had a ‘Commuting<br />
Book’ sticker with informations<br />
and instructions on the project.<br />
Although Ms Lorenzo has not<br />
had much feedback she said the<br />
travelling of books was a good<br />
sign.<br />
“Some of them are responding<br />
through Facebook. They are<br />
being very generous with their<br />
comments and their feedback.<br />
It’s very encouraging.”<br />
Ms Lorenzo estimated she<br />
had distributed about 230<br />
books so far, and hoped that<br />
number would rise as the project<br />
developed.<br />
“We hope to be implementing<br />
a few different aspects to the<br />
project in the next couple of<br />
months.”<br />
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