Pegasus Post: March 05, 2019

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Two-year wait for road repairs
• By Matt Slaughter
ROAD USERS in the east will
have to wait another two years
for one of the area’s most badly
damaged roads to be repaired.
THe city council has confirmed
the repair to New Brighton Rd
between Bower Ave and the
Pages Rd roundabout will take
place in 2020-21 at a cost of
about $1.2 million.
Members of
the Coastal-
Burwood
Community
Board said this
is too long to
wait and they
Kim Money
would continue
to put pressure
on the city
council to start work now.
Deputy chairman Tim Sintes
said the community board’s
concerns about the state of the
stretch of road would continue
to be raised in its meetings until
the city council did something
about it.
“It won’t go away until it’s
fixed. The community board’s
members like myself and others
get it coming to us all the time,
so we’ll just keep bringing it up
all the time.”
Board chairwoman Kim
Money said: “We just need to
be seeing some action because
it is seriously affecting the wellbeing
of our residents. A lot of
these earthquake repairs that
we haven’t seen for the last eight
years are attached to the wellbeing
of the community.
“On a daily basis, we are
seeing these repairs that haven’t
been done and that’s really
hard, so for us to be able to move
these things forward would be
good.”
Ms Money said the stretch of
road was an “absolute disgrace.”
“THere’s plenty of potholes,
bumpy road dips and water
flooding on it . . . the pothole
people must be in there virtually
every week filling potholes.”
THe city council has also said
the project won’t include the
repair of the Cockayne Reserve
car park.
Ms Money said the car park
had been used as a dumping
ground by contractors and it was
common for shingle and metal
to be dumped there.
UNEVEN:
Road users
will have to
wait another
two years for
New Brighton
Rd between
Bower Ave and
the Pages Rd
roundabout to
be fixed.
“It really is an eyesore … it
really is just not fair for the
residents and the shops and
retailers in that area.”
Mr Sintes said the community
board had been calling for New
Brighton Rd to be repaired
since the February 22, 2011,
earthquake and another twoyear
delay would be a huge blow
for residents.
“New Brighton Rd has been
on the agenda for so long and
it’s just so disappointing to see it
taking this long.”
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CONSENT FOR CAR PARK
A new car park will be
constructed at Thomson Park
on Marine Pde. Resource
consent has been approved and
the project will be completed
by June. The new car park is
part of a project to renew the
facilities in the park. A new
public toilet was installed in
December and the project will
also involve the installation
of a new basketball court and
the completion of landscaping
work. Meanwhile, a project to
repair earthquake damage in
Bexley Park will get under way
this month. The car park will
be replaced, upgrades will be
made to the track connecting
the car park and toilet, and a
damaged footbridge will be
removed.
BUS STOP UPGRADE
The Pegasus Post reported
last week the Papanui-
Innes Community Board
had approved a proposal to
upgrade the bus stop and
shelter on Shirley Rd in
front of the Palms Shopping
Centre. The proposal was not
approved and actually only
considered and was discussed
at a meeting on February 22
rather than February 18, as
was first reported.
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