"Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got till it's gone" ~Joni Mitchell
The first photo shows the area along the north bank of the Waikanae River: at present a picturesque footpath/cycleway; you hear the murmuring of the Waikanae River, popular with bathers and whitebaiters in season, you hear the singing of tui birds in the trees and horses can be seen grazing in the grassy areas.
The second and third photos show the area either side of Te Moana Road; north then south.
When Steven Joyce's Kapiti expressway is built this will instead be a four-lane, 9-metre high motorway through Waikanae nature, floodlit at night, so that big trucks can motor even faster to destinations presently served by rail.
So if you're passing through Waikanae in the coming warmer months, stop a while to enjoy the area while you still can.
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| Steven Joyce: d e s t r o y..... d e s t r o y! |
5 comments:
Love the Dalek! ;-)
what's with this Steven Joyce? are all your government politicians like him?
Thanks Mark. In answer to Rick,
1. Who knows? Maybe he was given monster truck toys to play with as a kid.
2. The problem isn't only Mr Joyce - bureaucratic blockheads in the NZ Transport Agency and the Treasury who can't see past the bean-counting principles they studied to get their accountancy degrees are a major problem too. Often these people provide ideologically motivated "advice" to the ministers they serve, finding justification for it in their textbooks, not in the real world.
There needs to be something done, if it wasnt this then what else could they do? spend millions on rail sidings everywhere?
Im certain that it wont just benefit trucks but cars aswell especially in the long weekends, hopefully it stops the nasty crashes too.
A lot of the traffic on SHI over this section from Peka Peka to Raumati is local - why not drive along Kapiti Road between Pararaparumu town and the beach any weekday and you'll see just how heavy local traffic is. The original Western Link Road would have taken a lot of it off SH1. Steven Joyce just wants to swap their roles.
Neither will do anything for crash prevention, they're caused by other factors.
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