The Star: October 22, 2020

Plan to
fund sex
worker role
• By Louis Day
CITY COUNCILLORS will
decide today whether to fund a
support person for sex workers.
The New Zealand Prostitutes’
Collective has applied for $40,099
from the city council’s metropolitan
discretionary fund to
help fund the wages of its street
outreach co-ordinator.
However, city council staff
have recommended only $14,099
is given to the collective as it
believes it is already in a “good
financial position.”
The street outreach co-ordinator
directly supports street-based
sex workers by connecting them
with the appropriate health
services and providing them
with safe-sex products. The coordinator
also works to prevent
sex-workers from engaging in antisocial
and dangerous behaviour
that can cause unrest amongst
communities.
Another objective of the coordinator
is to reduce acts of
violence between sex workers and
from members of the public.
The city council sees the work
of the co-ordinator as crucial in
ensuring the safety of workers,
especially considering five sex
workers have been murdered in
the city, including one last year.
• By Louis Day
THE VIABILITY of a park
and ride facility for motorists
travelling into the city from the
south-west has been scrutinised.
Earlier this
year, city
councillor
Anne Galloway
called on
council staff
to investigate
the feasibility
of a park and
ride facility
in the vicinity
of Halswell which would allow
residents to park their vehicles at
and take public transport from
into the central city.
However, city council head
of transport Richard Osborne
said consultants have not yet
identified a park and ride facility
within the city’s boundaries
as a cost-effective measure of
improving bus patronage and
access.
Osborne said the effectiveness
of a park and ride facility is very
much dependent on the competitiveness
of the bus service
when compared with private
vehicle use, the cost of providing
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Park and ride may
not solve traffic issues
Anne
Galloway
Memorial Gardens
TRAFFIC: City councillor Anne Galloway believes a park
and ride for motorists from the south-west travelling into
the central city could be a good way to ease congestion.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
the facility and the availability of
creating parking spaces adjacent
to bus routes.
He said it is also important to
be wary of the traffic issues that
can arise from the creation of
park and ride facilities.
Park and ride facilities can
consolidate traffic to a single
point and cause congestion
by having very concentrated
demand around when buses are
arriving and departing.
However, Galloway still
thought there was room to explore
the idea of a park and ride
facility.
“I just think that it is worth
continuing to explore options
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within Halswell,” she said.
She still thought a park and
ride model could be a good way
to encourage people onto public
transport and could compliment
the bus priority lanes which are
planned for Lincoln Rd.
Galloway thought this was
particularly pressing considering
the city council’s goal of having
a carbon-neutral city by 2045.
In the 2016/2017 financial
year, Christchurch emitted an
estimated 2,485,335 gross tonnes
in carbon emissions.
Transportation was the
largest contributor to the city’s
emissions, accounting for 53 per
cent.
Thursday October 22 2020 The Star
NEWS 17
Lyttelton fire
subject of
exhibition
IT WAS after 10pm on October
24, 1870, when a fire started in
an empty house on Lyttelton’s
Oxford St between the Queen’s
Hotel and a boot-maker’s shop.
The flames quickly spread
through nearby shops until both
sides of London St were burning.
The fire raged along Oxford St and
Norwich Quay through wooden
houses, stables, a warehouse full
of wheat and two ship chandler’s
(marine equipment) shops and then
set most of the township ablaze in
spite of the desperate efforts of the
local brigade.
Some of the drama of that
night is captured in a new
exhibition called Sifting the Ashes:
The Great Fire of Lyttelton that
has been researched and put
together by Lyttelton Library staff
for the Christchurch Heritage
Festival.
The display will feature original
sources describing the progress of
the fire, attempts to control it, and
its aftermath as the damage was
assessed and the town rebuilt.
•Sifting the Ashes: The Great
Fire of Lyttelton, at Lyttelton
Library, runs until November
14. Open Monday to Friday
10am-6pm and Saturday
10am-1pm.
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