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CHRIS SKELTON/Stuff The bus lane on Riccarton Rd between Mona Vale and Deans Ave, in Christchurch, racked up three quarters ($560,000) of the city’s total bus lane fines this year. One 270-metre stretch of bus lane cost Christchurch drivers more than half a million dollars in fines in just 12 months. Nearly 6000 fines worth a total of $740,250 have been dished out for driving or parking in the city's bus lanes since the end of November last year, with just one bus lane responsible for well over half of that. The stretch between Mona Vale and Deans Ave on Riccarton Rd, which opened in late...

Martin van Beynen/Stuff The Port Hills fire of February 2017. Council should instal CCTV cameras on Port Hil;ls accce4ss roads to track suspicious vehicles, argues Mike Yardley. OPINION: As a hill-dweller in Huntsbury, memories of the devastating 2017 Port Hills fires still run raw. Like most hill residents, the reports of a spate of suspicious fires being lit last Wednesday fast rekindled that shared sense of dread, fear and “not again”. Saturday morning’s dramatic scrub fire on Hillsborough has only compounded the heightened sense of unease. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) got ...