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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 15 <strong>2017</strong> 11<br />
Drivers should stop<br />
at busy Tai Tapu<br />
intersection<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
MOTORISTS ARE being urged<br />
to stop at a busy intersection in<br />
Tai Tapu.<br />
Police have assessed the<br />
intersection of Old Tai Tapu Rd<br />
and Christchurch Akaroa Rd<br />
following complaints of poor<br />
visibility and motorists failing<br />
to stop.<br />
Senior Sergeant Pete Stills recently<br />
drove to the intersection<br />
to observe.<br />
“My attitude was if you stop<br />
and look, the visibility was<br />
sufficient. One of the issues of<br />
not coming to a complete stop<br />
is you cut down your time, you<br />
cut down your ability to have a<br />
good look,” he said.<br />
The Tai Tapu Community<br />
Association has been working<br />
to resolve the issues for more<br />
than a year.<br />
But the committee’s chairman<br />
Gerald Carter said he<br />
could not comment on the<br />
resolutions as it is for the New<br />
Zealand Transport Agency and<br />
the district council to comment<br />
on.<br />
The district council’s asset<br />
engineer Mark Chamberlain<br />
said it was not aware of any<br />
submissions made in the past 12<br />
months on the intersection.<br />
It previously had a speed indicator<br />
on Lincoln Tai Tapu Rd<br />
which turns into Old Tai Tapu<br />
Rd at the intersection as part of<br />
four signs rotated throughout<br />
the district.<br />
But it does not have plans to<br />
install more.<br />
NZTA traffic safety engineer<br />
David Scarlet said there are<br />
already speed indicator devices<br />
within the township at the approaches<br />
to the school.<br />
It comes as concerns were<br />
raised over the safety of large<br />
groups of cyclists in the area are<br />
assembling near The Store before<br />
embarking on their cycle<br />
trip.<br />
A resident, who did not wish<br />
to be named, said on a recent<br />
Sunday morning there were cyclists<br />
scattered across the road<br />
and they did not seem to have<br />
consideration for other people<br />
using the road.<br />
But police had not received<br />
complaints about cyclists at the<br />
intersection.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do<br />
you have concerns with<br />
the intersection of Old Tai<br />
Tapu Rd and Christchurch<br />
Akaroa Rd? Email your<br />
views to georgia.oconnor@<br />
starmedia.kiwi<br />
Lincoln High names dux<br />
LINCOLN HIGH School<br />
revealed its top students at its end<br />
of year prize-giving.<br />
Oliver Gwatkin has been<br />
named dux for <strong>2017</strong> and was<br />
awarded the Rose Woods Cup for<br />
excellence in year 13.<br />
Jake Faulkner was awarded<br />
proxime accessit.<br />
The awards were held recently<br />
at the Lincoln Event Centre.<br />
Major Awards:<br />
•David Jackson – Mana<br />
Māori Award for contribution<br />
to mana Māori.<br />
•Daniel Mathers –<br />
Arts Council Trophy for<br />
contribution to the arts.<br />
•Lucy Turner – Old<br />
Students’ Association<br />
Challenge Trophy for<br />
determination to succeed.<br />
•Chantal Wilson – Garters<br />
Cup for commitment to<br />
colleagues.<br />
•Libby Trevelyan and<br />
Regan Kay – R.B. Strange<br />
Cup for leadership to head<br />
students.<br />
•Amy Burney – McMahon<br />
Cup for citizenship.<br />
•Emma Kench – R.S.A. Cup<br />
for all-round achievement.<br />
•Stephanie Bain, Amy<br />
Burney, Jake Faulkner, Oliver<br />
Gwatkin, Theresa Matheson-<br />
Grant, Brittany Pocock, Libby<br />
Trevelyan, Charlotte Walker<br />
– scholarship awards for<br />
students who have achieved<br />
three or more first in subject<br />
LINCOLN’S BRIGHTEST: Oliver Gwatkin and Jake Faulkner were<br />
awarded dux and proxime accessit respectively.<br />
or distinction awards.<br />
Distinction awards go to the<br />
top five per cent of students<br />
in each subject.<br />
•Ellesmere College leaders<br />
and prize-giving, pages 12-15<br />
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