Auckland light rail facing huge hurdles to get back on track
16 May, 2021 05:00 PM
8 minutes to read
Artist impression of light rail on Ian McKinnon Drive heading towards Dominion Rd. Photo / Supplied The Labour Government s failure to deliver on light rail in Auckland last term has brought a new minister and a new plan to get the multi-billion dollar project back on track. Super City reporter Bernard Orsman explains Light Rail Mark II.
What is light rail?
Light right is the modern-day equivalent of trams, which once carried more passengers than today s combined public transport network of buses, trains and ferries. At the time, Auckland s population was 500,000 people. Today it is 1.7 million.
Dawn Picken: Good fences, good neighbours? I don t think so
14 May, 2021 10:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Tall fences are a metaphor for what we ve lost. Photo/Getty
OPINION
There s a saying that good fences make good neighbours. But the more barriers I see in my neighbourhood, the more I question if that saying is (or ever was) true for anyone but farmers. We bought our first Kiwi home in Pāpāmoa in 2015. One thing we loved about our cul de sac was its lack of high fences. The area felt spacious. Open. Hospitable.
That feeling is fading with each new neighbourhood fence. I watch builders erect sections of two-metre-high planks and feel a twinge of sadness.
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You can t fake it with horses : the new world of equine-assisted learning
10 minutes to read
Joanna Wane on using horsepower to break down barriers without words. After two years away, Hayley Ryan was at the end of a long trip home from Ireland and at the end of her tether when she finally cleared Covid quarantine and arrived at her mother s place in North Canterbury.
Exhausted after what had been a hugely stressful few months, she headed out to the back paddock to see the horses. Quietly, they gathered around her, close enough to feel the warm huff of their breath.