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Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 9 <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
Improvements likely for bus hub<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
MORE THAN $1 million has<br />
been earmarked for a bus hub<br />
and safety improvements outside<br />
Eastgate Mall.<br />
The money has been moved<br />
from the balance of funding for<br />
safety improvements from the<br />
Buckleys Rd, Linwood Ave and<br />
Aldwins Rd intersection following<br />
the release of the Linwood-<br />
Eastgate Area<br />
Integrated<br />
Transport<br />
Study.<br />
City councillor<br />
Sara<br />
Templeton said<br />
people heading<br />
Yani<br />
Johanson<br />
through the bus<br />
stop “deserve<br />
better” than its<br />
current state<br />
when the plan was approved during<br />
Thursday’s council meeting.<br />
“For many years we have<br />
heard from the Linwood community<br />
that the bus facilities on<br />
Buckleys Rd are not appropriate.<br />
It is the third busiest suburban<br />
bus interchange in the city.”<br />
However, Peter Jasper told<br />
the city council residents along<br />
the stretch of Buckleys Rd near<br />
the bus stop found accessing to<br />
their properties difficult due to<br />
frequency of buses.<br />
“It would be irresponsible<br />
to spend ratepayer money on<br />
more,” he said.<br />
Mr Jasper said putting in a<br />
de facto bus hub lacked “any<br />
shred of commonsense and<br />
common decency” towards<br />
home owners and residents.<br />
The bus stops in front of<br />
Eastgate cater up to 30 buses<br />
per hour and board up to 1500<br />
passengers per day, rivalling<br />
Northlands Shopping Centre.<br />
Linwood Ward city councillor<br />
Yani Johanson also questioned<br />
whether taking the funding<br />
from the intersection safety<br />
improvement was the right thing<br />
to do.<br />
“The issue here is that we are<br />
robbing a safety intersection<br />
improvement that we publicly<br />
consulted on during out LTP to<br />
pay for a public transport hub<br />
where there is still not a clear<br />
idea about what that public<br />
transport hub will look like.”<br />
However, city council staff<br />
said the safety improvements<br />
had been completed and the $1.1<br />
million was leftover.<br />
Cr Johanson would not<br />
support moving the funding<br />
without public consultation<br />
or before Environment<br />
SAFETY: $1.1<br />
million has<br />
been set aside<br />
for a new bus<br />
hub outside<br />
Eastgate Mall.<br />
Canterbury’s Regional Public<br />
Transport Plan had been<br />
released as it could impact the<br />
Eastgate area.<br />
Staff said there was work that<br />
could be done that “would not<br />
be undone” following the plan’s<br />
release and other construction<br />
would not be done before the<br />
plan was finalised.<br />
“There is still a need for the<br />
pedestrian crossing and other<br />
safety measures to be undertaken<br />
like tactiles, etc.”<br />
First on the upgrade schedule<br />
is a signalised crossing between<br />
bus stops on Buckleys Rd, staff<br />
said.<br />
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LIBRARY CLOSURE<br />
The Parklands Library will be<br />
closed from the middle of next<br />
month for earthquake repairs.<br />
The heating and ventilation<br />
system will also be replaced and<br />
the lights will get energy-efficient<br />
LED fittings. City council head<br />
of libraries and information<br />
Carolyn Robertson said the flood<br />
coverings will be replaced and<br />
computer work stations will be<br />
moved. The exact date of the<br />
closure is yet to be confirmed.<br />
DONNELL SPORTS PARK<br />
The city council will add<br />
additional bark to Donnell<br />
Sports Park early next year as<br />
part of the park’s upgrade. It<br />
will be done in conjunction with<br />
the basketball court repairs and<br />
toilet block installation. The city<br />
council secured $600,000 to<br />
upgrade the park.<br />
SPEED LIMIT STAYS<br />
The speed limit in the Prestons<br />
subdivision will remain at<br />
50km/h. The Coastal- Burwood<br />
and Papanui-Innes community<br />
boards voted not to lower the<br />
speed limit to 40km/h after<br />
the city council identified<br />
that reducing the limit was<br />
appropriate. The existing school<br />
speed zones will remain in<br />
place.<br />
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