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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>June</strong> 6 <strong>2019</strong><br />
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NEWS<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
WEAK, SOFT ground has seen<br />
a bridge on the controversial<br />
$240 million Northern Corridor<br />
needing to be rebuilt.<br />
<strong>The</strong> poor condition of the<br />
ground has been an ongoing issue<br />
with the project and although<br />
the New Zealand Transport<br />
Agency project team took it into<br />
consideration, the QE II Drive<br />
overbridge settled further than<br />
expected.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> team has reviewed<br />
options to fix this and the<br />
best long-term option, which<br />
provides the greatest surety, is to<br />
deconstruct the walls, add new<br />
piles and construct the walls<br />
again,” NZTA portfolio manager<br />
Colin MacKay said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> very weak ground has<br />
caused the abutment walls to<br />
move horizontally slightly<br />
more during construction than<br />
the design allows. <strong>The</strong> option<br />
of installing additional piles<br />
and reconstructing the walls<br />
provides the greatest long-term<br />
resilience.”<br />
Mr MacKay said the redo<br />
would be covered within the<br />
existing budget and it would still<br />
be on-track to open mid-next<br />
year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> team has the equipment,<br />
crew and materials already in<br />
place and they expect to finish<br />
the reconstruction of the bridge<br />
abutments and walls within the<br />
current programme and within<br />
budget.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> issue was discovered<br />
early and so was a solution, he<br />
said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> design and construction<br />
of the bridge is unchanged. This<br />
additional work will stabilise the<br />
ground beneath the bridge giving<br />
it good, long-term resilience.”<br />
Further piling work at QE II<br />
Drive will start in August.<br />
It comes as the Papanui-<br />
Innes and Linwood-Central-<br />
Heathcote community boards are<br />
news online at www.star.kiwi<br />
Overbridge to be rebuilt<br />
PROBLEM: <strong>The</strong> Norther Corridor’s QE II Drive overbridge is<br />
being reconstructed after it was discovered it had sunk in<br />
the weak ground.<br />
recommending the city council<br />
take another look at traffic<br />
mitigation measures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> motorway, which runs<br />
from the Waimakariri district<br />
through to Cranford St, is expected<br />
to boost traffic through St<br />
Albans by 30 per cent.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been a number of<br />
options suggested to off-set the<br />
amount including a rapid bus<br />
service, a high occupancy vehicle<br />
land and park and ride facilities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council will make a<br />
decision on the recommendations<br />
in July.<br />
Cruising behaviour<br />
new term for boy racers<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
IF YOU are hooning around in<br />
the western suburbs of the city,<br />
you now won’t be labelled a “boy<br />
racer” by community leaders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board has<br />
renamed the term “boy racing”<br />
to “cruising behaviour” following<br />
concerns the words were not<br />
appropriate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> topic emerged when<br />
deputy chairwoman Helen<br />
Broughton filed a motion calling<br />
for increased enforcement<br />
of police against boy racers on<br />
Deans Ave.<br />
Before the motion was<br />
brought to the board the term<br />
was changed to “cruising behaviour”<br />
due to concerns from<br />
in brief<br />
Pay bills at Papanui<br />
Service Centre<br />
People wanting to post letters<br />
and pay bills will be able to<br />
do it all at the city council’s<br />
Papanui Service Centre. Postal<br />
services have been offered from<br />
the service centre since the<br />
start of February, but now it<br />
will become a full agent for NZ<br />
Post. Upgrades will be made<br />
to the centre over the next few<br />
weeks to accommodate the<br />
board chairman Mike Mora.<br />
“If you are a girl for an example<br />
driving a car, you are not a<br />
boy racer are you? If you are a<br />
25-year-old or a 38-year-old you<br />
are not a boy racer,” he said.<br />
His other concern was the city<br />
council has a “no cruising bylaw”<br />
in place, not a “boy racer”<br />
bylaw.<br />
Daniel Cossar, who organised<br />
the notorious Aves Invasion<br />
event over Easter, said the term<br />
“boy racer” is not offensive at all<br />
and people can call them what<br />
they like.<br />
Canterbury metro police area<br />
commander Superintendent<br />
Lane Todd said the term “boy<br />
racer” has sometimes been an<br />
issue and police instead call<br />
them anti-social road users.<br />
extra services and improve<br />
customer experience.<br />
Price hike at Lichfield<br />
St parking building<br />
<strong>The</strong> all-day parking rate at the<br />
Lichfield St parking building is<br />
set to increase from $10 to $15<br />
to free up more parking spaces<br />
for central city shoppers. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
now high demand for short stay<br />
parking and the parking building<br />
regularly nears capacity.<br />
HAVE YOUR SAY<br />
Change the speed limit<br />
to 60km/h?<br />
We want to make Christchurch roads safer. We’re reviewing<br />
speed limits across our roading network.<br />
We are proposing to change 80 km/h and 70 km/h speed limits to<br />
60 km/h in the Marshland, Spencerville and Kainga area:<br />
• Marshland / Main North Roads<br />
• Spencerville / Kainga Roads<br />
• Local road network west of Marshland Road.<br />
Consultation is open until 2 July.<br />
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least five days and only dispose<br />
of it in the red bin.<br />
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Let us know what you think<br />
ccc.govt.nz/haveyoursay<br />
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