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Transport Minister Michael Wood admits Aucklanders were left out of previous consultations over light rail through the city and has announced a new engagement processes.
Auckland lawyer Will McKenzie has won the Albert-Eden local board by-election by 24 votes – with his closest rival not ruling out pushing for a recount. In a very tight race, McKenzie secured victory today for the Communities & Residents party on the Albert-Eden local board. McKenzie faced stiff opposition, narrowly squeezing out public transport advocate and lawyer, Bernadette Power. Power told
Will McKenzie/Supplied McKenzie is set to be sworn in as a local board member on June 8.
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Lawyer Will McKenzie is running in the Albert-Eden Local Board by-election after previously working as a policy advisor for John Tamihere. The proposed structure, made up of 10 traffic lanes, four rail tracks, two cycleways and two walkways, was widely criticised. But McKenzie stands by his proposal, calling it “Engineering 101”.
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Transport advocate and lawyer Bernadette Power is also in the race and has called some of McKenzie’s ideas “far-fetched”. “The policies we put forward were well reasoned and well researched, they were completely conventional policies,” he said. Power, who is affiliated to the left-leaning City Vision ticket, said she didn t look into McKenzie’s bridge proposal “terribly closely”.
Situated on prime real-estate 10 minutes west of the central city, Chamberlain Park was at the centre of a bitter, five-year battle over a controversial proposal to re-develop the golf course, halving it from 18 to nine holes. John Parker, who has played golf at Chamberlain Park for 30 years, said balls going over the fence was nothing new, and claimed his local course was being unfairly targeted for its land. “It’s been no different to what’s been for the last 30 years in Chamberlain,” he said about the recent spate of sub-par shots. “There are hundreds of sports grounds and fields that border roadways around Auckland, and they’ve picked on Chamberlain, because they’ve been after Chamberlain for quite a while.
The temporary closure of the 5th, 12th and 14th holes reduces the public course to an unconventional 15 holes, raising questions about how the handicapping system will cope. Kim O’Neill, Auckland Council community facilities acting general manager, said most of the errant swings damaged car body work, but in one case a ball smashed into a windscreen. “Until we can work out a long-term practical solution the best thing to do to ensure public safety is to close the three holes,” she said. Three incidents were reported in as many months, from December 2020 to February 2021.
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