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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>June</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>19<br />
16<br />
NEWS<br />
Support for<br />
intersection<br />
traffic lights<br />
• By Jess Gibson<br />
MORE THAN half of the 1085<br />
submissions on the Harewood,<br />
Breens and Gardiners Rds<br />
intersection supported the $1.2<br />
million plan for traffic lights.<br />
But if the option is approved,<br />
the city council will need to find<br />
$800,000 to fund it. A proposal<br />
with two options to upgrade<br />
safety at the intersection<br />
brought in the highest amount<br />
of feedback from May 6 to <strong>June</strong><br />
10 of any of the city council’s<br />
consultations in the past 12<br />
months.<br />
Head of transport Richard<br />
Osborne said staff are still in<br />
the process of analysing the<br />
submissions on the intersection<br />
but confirmed the majority<br />
supported the traffic lights<br />
option. Mr Osborne said if the<br />
lights are approved, the city<br />
council will need to allocate<br />
additional funding to the project<br />
as part of the Annual Plan and<br />
Long Term Plan process.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other option, which is<br />
preferred by the city council,<br />
would make both Gardiners<br />
and Breens Rds left turn in<br />
and left turn out only, and<br />
include a traffic-light controlled<br />
pedestrian crossing – which<br />
would cost $400,000.<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
AN INVESTIGATION into the<br />
environmental impact of cruise<br />
ships in Akaroa is under way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report, being conducted by<br />
the Cawthron Institute on behalf<br />
of Environment Canterbury, will<br />
outline the impact of cruise ships<br />
and provide recommendations<br />
on how to minimise them. A<br />
draft is expected by the end of<br />
next month.<br />
ECan regional harbourmaster<br />
Jim Dilley said<br />
the results of the<br />
inquiry could<br />
potentially<br />
influence the<br />
size of cruise<br />
ships entering<br />
Akaroa in the<br />
future.<br />
ECan initiated<br />
the inquiry after<br />
naval architect<br />
Harry Stronach<br />
highlighted<br />
cruise ships in<br />
Akaroa were<br />
likely to be in<br />
breach of harbour<br />
regulations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Regional<br />
Coastal<br />
Environment Plan limits seabed<br />
disturbance to a total of 50m 3<br />
in any three-month period for<br />
news online at www.star.kiwi<br />
Inquiry into Akaroa’s cruise ships<br />
Jim Dilley<br />
Harry<br />
Stronach<br />
DISTURBANCE: An investigation into the environmental impact of cruise ships on Akaroa<br />
Harbour is under way.<br />
any coastal area outside an<br />
operational port.<br />
Akaroa Harbour is not classed<br />
as an operational port.<br />
Mr Stronach said any ship<br />
that is more than 40,000 gross<br />
tonnes – of which 90 per cent of<br />
the cruise ships visiting Akaroa<br />
are – is likely to cause a seabed<br />
disturbance at least 10 times the<br />
permitted level, per visit.<br />
This would be a breach of<br />
section 338 of the Resource<br />
Management Act.<br />
Every person who commits<br />
an offence under the section<br />
could be sent to prison for up<br />
to two years or fined $300,000.<br />
Organisations can be fined up to<br />
$600,000.<br />
Mr Dilley said ECan<br />
acknowledges cruise ships<br />
operating in Akaroa are likely to<br />
be in breach of the RMA.<br />
However, he said without any<br />
evidence, enforcement action<br />
was not warranted.<br />
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