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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 7<br />
• By Emily O’Connell<br />
A HALSWELL resident<br />
is frustrated the<br />
Kennedy’s Bush track<br />
has been closed for<br />
almost a year and she’s<br />
not really sure why.<br />
The track, which has<br />
been closed since the<br />
Port Hills fires in February<br />
last year, was due<br />
to reopen on December 31.<br />
Halswell Community Project<br />
chairwoman Chrys<br />
Horn (left) feels the<br />
track has been closed<br />
“too long.”<br />
But Christchurch<br />
Transport Operations<br />
Centre manager Ryan<br />
Cooney said the city<br />
council and private<br />
landowner “have been<br />
discussing the timely<br />
removal of the privately<br />
owned trees.”<br />
He said damaged trees need<br />
to be removed before the track<br />
reopens.<br />
Mr Cooney said it is now due<br />
to reopen on March 31.<br />
But Dr Horn doubts it will<br />
open then.<br />
“The worry for me is not that<br />
it’s closed but when is it going<br />
to open. We’ve already been<br />
through one date. And I’m wondering<br />
what else is going on here<br />
behind the scenes,” she said.<br />
Mr Cooney said the trail,<br />
which is mostly on unformed<br />
PROCESS: A<br />
three-month<br />
delay of the<br />
reopening<br />
of the<br />
Kennedy’s<br />
Bush track<br />
is frustrating<br />
one Halswell<br />
resident. <br />
Walking track closed for ‘too long’<br />
Chrys Horn<br />
legal road and some private<br />
property, was delayed due to a<br />
wet winter.<br />
“Unfortunately, the wet weather<br />
last year resulted in excess<br />
sediment running off the hills<br />
into the Hoon Hay stream as a<br />
result of early logging attempts<br />
so work was paused,” he said.<br />
Dr Horn said she would “hate<br />
to see it closed forever.”<br />
“It’s something I’ve used all<br />
my life and I don’t want to lose<br />
access up there,” she said.<br />
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“Police are stoked things have<br />
quietened down there.”<br />
Based on previous years, Constable<br />
Thorn said “things would<br />
ramp up a bit” during the school<br />
holidays, but he had not received<br />
any complaints from retailers.<br />
Although he isn’t exactly sure<br />
why, Constable Thorn felt having<br />
The Pawn Shop on the corner of<br />
Division St made the area less attractive<br />
for troublemakers.<br />
He also said it was possible they<br />
had “found other places to go.”<br />
However, he said there had been<br />
some security changes in the bus<br />
lounge.<br />
Community board deputy<br />
chairwoman Helen Broughton<br />
said as long as business owners<br />
were happy, the board was also<br />
happy. She was “delighted this<br />
has occurred.”<br />
Mrs Broughton said a<br />
“gruelling winter” may have<br />
helped divert troubled youth<br />
from the area.<br />
She said the recommendations<br />
will probably be put on<br />
hold and used in the future if<br />
needed.<br />
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