Bay Harbour: July 17, 2019

Wednesday July 17 2019
News
Call to crack down on boy racers
• By Jess Gibson
LYTTELTON Harbour residents
want police to crack down on
boy racers after an increase in
anti-social behaviour.
Littering, burnout marks,
damage to property and unsafe
driving are some of the issues
which have been of growing
concern in hot spot areas.
The Banks
Peninsula
Community
Board has asked
city council staff
to arrange police
to brief the board
Ken
Maynard
on the issue
within the Banks
Peninsula Ward.
It came after community
board deputy chairman
Tyrone Fields noted that it was
something people are “actively
complaining about” around
Lyttelton.
“Boy racers are generally
pretty disrespectful of the
whole community,” Mr Fields
said.
The Lyttelton Police Station is
only staffed between 8am-5pm –
after that, any calls are taken by
police in Christchurch.
Lyttelton Community Association
chairman Ken Maynard
said he has noticed the increase
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in boy racer activity outside of
those hours.
He said groups have been
gathering in hot spots such as
Summit Rd and Cass Bay but
they generally move around to
“share out the misery.”
“I’m not sure that police are
doing enough as they are pretty
thin on the ground, and things
are definitely worse than they
used to be now that there is no
presence,” Mr Maynard said.
Senior Sergeant Stephen
McDaniel said the track around
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CARNAGE: A convoy of boy racers caused damage at
Allandale Reserve in June.
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Lyttelton and Corsair Bay is one
which is travelled by a lot of boy
racers in the weekends.
But he did not want to link
damage to boy racers.
“I’m very conscious of categorising
boy racers. It depends who
you deem a boy racer, it could be
a car enthusiast or a person who
is out there damaging property.
You can’t just say that all boy
racers are damaging property,”
he said.
Over the next six to eight
weeks, a number of speed limits
will drop around the peninsula
on highways and roads which
are heavily used by vehicles and
pedestrians.
But Mr Fields said the speed
reductions will not make a
“blind bit of difference” in
stopping unsafe driving for boy
racers.
However, he said it will create
more grounds for enforcement.
“At the moment, some of the
speed limits are so high that you
could be driving around there
like a maniac and still not be
pulled up on it.”
He said the meeting with
police will help the community
board understand what is being
done to stop the behaviour and if
there is a plan in place to prevent
it from getting worse.
In June, a convoy of more than
200 boy racers caused damage
across peninsula in a drive which
paid tribute to a man who died.
Residents took to Facebook
the next morning to post and
share photos and comments of
the damage on Lyttelton and
Governors Bay pages.
At Allandale Reserve in
Governors Bay, vehicles had
ripped up the grass, a drinking
fountain was leaking, a bin
was dented and posts had been
pulled out of the ground.
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