Western News: June 14, 2016

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Tuesday June 14 2016
Your Local Views
WESTERN NEWS
Connect with your
neighbourhood
Deans Ave
Precinct Society
spokeswoman Claire
Mulcock writes about
making Riccarton
more neighbourhood
friendly:
The Deans Avenue
Precinct Society has taken
on a new project to make
our neighbourhood a more
friendly place to live, and
at the same time make
sure that we are doing all
we can to minimise crime
and other anti-social
behaviour.
We get together
as neighbours at our
community barbecues, but
we want to do more.
We know from the work
done by the Riccarton
Neighbourhood Policing
team that simple things
that anyone of us can take
care of, can make a big
difference. It’s as easy as
phoning the store to report
a shopping trolley that
has been dumped in the
street so that it can be
picked up or using the free
phone app “Snap, Send,
Solve” to send a picture of
graffiti to the city council
and someone will come
and remove it.
To help keep the street
tidy, we want to get into
the habit of checking for
litter and rubbish in the
street when we put our
red bins out for collection.
These things may not seem
important ways to keep
crime down, but there is
clear evidence that they
help.
At least as important as
these things is knowing
who your neighbours
are.
If you’ve never met
your neighbours how
can you tell if people
that you think are acting
suspiciously could be
actually out looking for a
place to burgle? If you do
see strangers and it doesn’t
seem right, do phone the
police on 111.
We can all do something
nice for a friend, a
neighbour or a stranger.
Give a smile, say “hello”
and connect with the
people around you.
It feels good to give and
everybody has something
to offer, wherever you live.
How will you play your
part?
Readers respond to
last week’s article
about lowering
the speed limit on
sections of St Asaph
St and Hagley Ave
as well as 27 other
roads in the city. They
respond:
Robert McGregor, of
Harewood – This speed
limit is a joke. Most cyclists
I know with be breaking
the speed limits most of
the time. As many average
35km/h-plus as a rule.
Michael J.
Brathwaite, of Spreydon
– I would have thought
Karolin Potter would have
had more sense than to
suggest we have more 30km/h speed
limits imposed on us – especially since
no-one can keep to that speed in town.
If one does manage it, over-confident
pedestrians casually cross the road in
front of one.
I suppose it will take the deaths of a few
pedestrians to convince the council such
speed limits are a mistake.
Also, it is hard to look out for
pedestrians when one has to keep an eye
constantly on one’s speedometer.
If Ms Potter still lived around the
corner from me, she would realise the
impossibility of getting to Sydenham
from our part of town via any route but
Collins St.
If people drive at 70km/h there, there
are appropriate penalties if they are
caught, and it would be grossly unfair
to punish everyone who uses the back
streets around Church Square.
If the council do not want motorists on
these streets, they need to find a way of
keeping the traffic moving on Brougham
St, possibly by removing the median
strip that has adversely affected property
values and replacing it with another lane.
HAVE YOUR SAY: If you have a
view on a local issue which you
would like to share, send it in 250
words or less to tom.doudney@
starmedia.kiwi
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