Wednesday, 16 October 2019
No plans to stop hitching
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/local-body-elections/no-plans-stop-hitching
Dunedin
mayor-elect Aaron Hawkins says hitchhiking to work from his Port
Chalmers home is more efficient and gives him a better understanding of
community views. Photo: Peter McIntosh
https://www.facebook.com/OtagoDailyTimes/posts/10158844143399691
- Gerard Hyland Once the cycleway Port - Dunedin is completed I suspect he'll be one of the first users, along with another new Councillor.
- Simon Short Gerard Hyland unless he's not a cyclist. Not everyone is comfortable on a bike.
- Daniel Procter Gerard Hyland will be years before that happens. The way the council lowball contractors and minimise the room for funding on variations, there isn’t any money in it for them. The last section from Maia - St Leonard’s lost the contractors nearly $400,000. This was all down to the low starting price just to get council work, lack of additional funding for variations and complications that they encountered, and then getting daily fines for being past the unattainable deadline
Gerard Hyland Daniel Procter NZTA, but not wrong otherwise! Just look at the proposed design to go over the hill to Sawyer’s Bay - huge expensive concrete monstrosity that blew the budget. Need designers with the proper experience to do the work, then realistic contractors.
