The Star: June 06, 2019

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