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Whanganui District Council has voted to reduce speed limits around schools, with some rural speeds dropping from 100km/h to 30km/h. They will be phased in by. ....
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Whanganui council considering speed reduction options of Papaiti Rd 22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Whanganui District Council is considering five different scenarios for speed reduction on Papaiti Rd. Photo / Logan Tutty A speed limit reduction on Papaiti Rd may be considered after residents raised safety concerns. The limit is 100km/h but some locals say the recently opened Upokongaro Cycle Bridge has increased the number of people using the road and exploring the area. A Whanganui District Council counter suggests more than 30,000 people have visited the bridge in the first six weeks it was open. Deb Frederikse, who lives a few kilometres beyond Mosquito Pt, said the speed on the road had been an issue for several years. ....
Whanganui letters: Council not giving away water assets - yet 15 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read The Upokongaro Cycleway Bridge opened last month. Photo / file Whanganui Chronicle Water assets Two former district councillors, Stephen Palmer and Murray Hughes, expressed their concerns (Chronicle, January 11) re the central government Three Waters Programme. Some wording in the reporting was misleading - but I can assure you that the Whanganui District Council has made no final commitment to either joining the scheme or passing over any assets. Answers to your obvious questions are not forthcoming simply because Government has not detailed the proposals yet. I do not believe that there is any support at the WDC for either subsidising other councils to install infrastructure or to handover control of the assets to a non-elected board - the example of Auckland s Watercare is not a model that carries much appeal. ....