Southern View: December 06, 2016
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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 6 <strong>2016</strong><br />
Your Local <strong>View</strong>s<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
FLAME FILES<br />
Stopping the firebugs<br />
Fire Risk Management<br />
Officer Mark Thomas writes<br />
about people lighting fires<br />
with no regard for the<br />
consequences<br />
Without going into details just<br />
in case it encourages those that<br />
think it’s cool or funny to light<br />
fires, there was a skip set alight<br />
this week at one of the city’s<br />
newer attractions. The potential<br />
was quite serious in a town where<br />
re-building our heritage has been<br />
a six-year journey that, so far, has<br />
no end in sight.<br />
The real message I want to<br />
convey is that there are people in<br />
our midst who will do this sort<br />
of thing without regard for the<br />
consequences and, in some cases,<br />
will be well aware of the consequences<br />
and hoping they occur.<br />
Mostly they will take the easy<br />
way. So things like skips and even<br />
rubbish bins that are placed close<br />
to a building with easy access in<br />
the middle of the night are an<br />
open invitation.<br />
It’s not so difficult to overcome<br />
this by locking compounds or<br />
even merely by placing the skip<br />
as far from your building as possible.<br />
The heartache, the clean-up<br />
and the rebuilding are all things<br />
we’ve been through. We don’t<br />
need it again.<br />
Note to travellers: Most New<br />
Zealand backpackers are protected<br />
by smoke alarms that ring<br />
right through the building to<br />
get everybody out. So lighting<br />
incense in your room is not recommended.<br />
Particularly just on<br />
midnight when most are asleep.<br />
As happened in New Brighton<br />
last Sunday.<br />
HARD TURN: Fulton Hogan trucks have causing concerns for residents doing U-turns on<br />
Ensors Rd. <br />
Trucks get green light<br />
to continue U-turns<br />
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Ms Davids said the community<br />
board is trying to get more<br />
traffic monitoring along the road<br />
as well.<br />
The community board approved<br />
removing five car parks<br />
outside of the quarry to improve<br />
the safety of heavy vehicles entering<br />
and existing the site.<br />
The report said putting in<br />
restrictions would stop unnecessary<br />
traffic delays along Ensors<br />
Rd due to trucks having to manoeuvre<br />
around the parked cars<br />
to be able to enter the site. The<br />
report also said it would improve<br />
visibility for the trucks as well.<br />
Ms Davids said it was a shame<br />
to lose the car parks but safety<br />
for the truck drivers, pedestrians<br />
and other road users was more<br />
important.<br />
Mr Hoskin said this would<br />
ease some of their concerns and<br />
losing some of the car parks was<br />
a small price to pay.<br />
The city council classifies<br />
Ensors Rd as a major arterial<br />
route, with ARA Institute of<br />
Canterbury directly across the<br />
road from the site with an average<br />
of 21,500 vehicles using the<br />
road per day.<br />
Fulton Hogan reported an<br />
average of 200 vehicles enter the<br />
site per day, the majority being<br />
heavy vehicles.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you<br />
think heavy vehicle truck<br />
and trailers should be<br />
allowed to make U-turns<br />
on Ensors Rd? Send your<br />
thoughts to caitlin.miles@<br />
starmedia.kiwi<br />
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