The Star: September 13, 2018

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Truck traffic under scrutiny
• By Anan Zaki
THE Fendalton-Waimairi-
Harewood Community Board
has asked city council staff to
look at the viability of a heavy
vehicle ban in Avonhead.
Board chairman Sam
MacDonald said it asked staff
last week to report back by
October 3.
The request comes after
Avonhead residents voiced their
anger through local newspapers
Western News and Nor’West
News.
“We’ve asked staff to go away
and basically bring us a report
and say what our options are with
regard to a [heavy vehicle] ban in
the area,” Mr MacDonald said.
Staff will investigate options
for a heavy vehicle ban
on Roydvale Ave (between
Avonhead Rd and Memorial
Ave), Avonhead Rd (between
Roydvale Ave and Russley Rd)
and Hawthornden Rd.
“We just want them to be very
clear, with the current rules in
place, what delegations the community
board has [to ban heavy
vehicles] and what evidence they
would require to do that,” Mr
MacDonald said.
But he steered clear of committing
to seek a heavy vehicle
ban in Avonhead.
“Until we get advice [from
staff], it wouldn’t be appropriate
to comment,” Mr MacDonald
said.
Hawthornden Rd resident Jon
Leadbeater said the community
board’s request was good news.
“People in the area would welcome
that. It could be a big step
to improve safety.
“The big wagon trucks, they
are the things that are concerning
to the residents.”
He hoped increased publicity
will get heavy traffic banned in
the area.
“I feel the publicity can make
the difference. [A ban] would
be a great outcome for everyone
concerned,” he said.
Mr Leadbeater said last week
that heavy vehicles are using
Roydvale Ave, Hawthornden Rd
and Cutts Rd as a shortcut.
He said heavy traffic increased
after the Avonhead and Russley
Rd intersection was closed in
November 2015, as part of NZ
UNSAFE:
Hawthornden
Rd resident Jon
Leadbeater has
welcomed the
Fendalton-
Waimairi-
Harewood
Community
Board’s request
to see if a heavy
vehicle ban is
viable in Avonhead.
Transport Agency’s $112 million
Russley Rd upgrade.
It follows on from residents
in Fendalton and Wigram also
voicing opposition to heavy
vehicles travelling through residential
areas.
Fendalton residents last
month lost their bid to ban
heavy vehicles from the Glandovey
and Idris Rd intersection.
Lady Wigram Retirement Village
residents on Lodestar Ave
complained about heavy traffic
last year.
Local
News
Now
Fire rages, homes at risk
Chlorine-free
north-west
one step closer
• By Ashleigh Monk
SUBURBS IN the north-west are
closer to being chlorine-free as
the construction of a new pump
station finishes.
The new Gardiners pump
station has been constructed in
Harewood Park, replacing the old
Harewood pump station.
City council planning and delivery
manager John Moore said
the project cost $6.05 million including
investigation, design, construction,
project management,
construction and commissioning
of the pump station, suction tank,
diesel tank, two deep wells, access
road and drainage.
“The pump station was built to
replace Harewood pump station,
which had a shallow well, and
also to provide additional supply
capacity for growth in the northwest
area, particularly in Highsted
and Upper Styx,” he said.
Work at the Burnside station
would also start next week to convert
the below ground well head
to an above ground well head.
The city council stopped chlorinating
the Thompsons water
pump station in late August,
bringing the total number of
pump stations across the city not
being chlorinated to nine.
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