by Cimino | 2 Aug 2010 | Motorway
The following submission is that of the Mahurangi Magazine, prepared by Cimino Cole, editor, with the support of John Timmins, publisher. The magazine thanks its many readers who have expressed support for the need to protect the harbourscape, and the need to build...
by Cimino | 2 Aug 2010 | Cartoons, Motorway
Submissions on the proposed Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway close today. Unless the submission is from the pro– Pūhoi access group that met with the New Zealand Transport Agency Friday, which has until 16 August. The transport agency’s Amanda Cosgrove says that although the...
by Cimino | 31 Jul 2010 | Motorway
It may be a case of joining the wrong dots. Or even a case of joining dots that aren’t there. But the spectre of a motorway snaking up Mahurangi Harbour, to the east of Schedewys Hill, Windy Ridge and Pōhuehue, is threatening to swamp reaction to the potential loss of...
by Christine Rose | 29 Jul 2010 | Motorway
The Auckland Regional Council respects and commends the NZ Transport Agency’s concern over growth pressures arising from transport infrastructure, and the need to reinforce and recognize the regional growth strategy etc as signalled in the regional policy statement....
by Cimino | 29 Jul 2010 | Motorway
It is clearly working. Expectations for increased property demand at Mahurangi West have been dashed. In line with the growth objectives of the district and regional plans, the NZ Transport Agency signalled that there would be no access to the planned motorway between...
by Cimino | 27 Jul 2010 | Motorway
The agency has said what it thinks. Headed ‘What we think’, the New Zealand Transport Agency a month ago outlined its broad plans for a Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway, and invited feedback. Since then, the Mahurangi Magazine has published seven pieces on the proposed...
by Cimino | 25 Jul 2010 | Motorway
‘Sofia’ has cost $1.3 billion. If built, the Pūhoi–Wellsford Motorway is estimated to cost $2.3 billion. Nine years behind schedule, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has just begun studying the atmospheres of other planets, when the extreme...
by Cluny Macpherson | 25 Jul 2010 | Motorway
The motorway consultation process is generating considerable debate in the area. Communities, understandably, are currently focused on what can be done between now and 26 July to influence those making decisions about the design of the proposed Pūhoi–Wellsford...
by Cimino | 22 Jul 2010 | Regional governance
It has huge appeal. Many would love to be lord of their own domain, kingdom, republic or, in the case of Rodney district mayors, unitary authority. Mayor John Law gave it a shot, only to be brought back to Earth by the reality of the cost of delivering the governance...
by Cimino | 21 Jul 2010 | Motorway
The raison d’être for this publication is the Mahurangi landscape. More specifically, the Mahurangi Magazine’s mission has been to help ensure that recognition of the harbourscape was a principal part of the Mahurangi Action Plan. And it is, although it appeared...
