Newsletter #32 - 27 April 2017 With many taking Monday and Tuesday off, much more has been squeezed into the shorter week, including traffic. On Wednesday, Auckland Transport held the first of its consultation meetings for the alignment of the Matakana Link Road. On Thursday, TVNZ announced the airing date for our TV show. GUTSFUL You heard that right. TVNZ announced their winter line-up, which included a new show called “Gutsful.” The show premieres on May 11 and the Fix Hil

To view the original article, please click here (page 15). Planning for a fix to north Auckland's problem plagued Hill St intersection has been brought forward, the NZ Transport Agency and Auckland Transport have announced. They are throwing $2 million into the blocked up artery at Warkworth to investigate design changes to the intersection. Designs put on the table by fed-up Warkworth residents, and some by Auckland Transport, will form the list of options to be considered b

Newsletter #31 - 20 April 2017 It’s been an odd week. It feels like the lull before the storm. While the Meteorological Service were issuing weather warnings over Easter for the north of Auckland (http://bit.ly/2olLXIE), NZTA were warning of congestion delays at hotspots, especially around Warkworth (http://bit.ly/2oVCPZD). Buried in the flood of press releases was an announcement that $2million would be spent to investigate and redesign the Hill Street intersection (http://b

Newsletter #30 - 13 April 2017 Thursday didn’t disappoint with the usual flood of press releases from all directions. At The Gauntlet, we prepare a draft early in the week, expecting for the final version to look very different. Since it is a holiday weekend, we’ve decided the clear the desk and put together a bumper issue covering the past week. (NOTE: This issue contains large graphics that can be viewed in more detail at the foot of this newsletter.) IN A NUTSHELL The NZTA

To view the original article, please click here. Warkworth residents are fed up with the dog of an intersection and have been campaigning for something to be done. Planning for a fix to north Auckland's problem plagued Hill St intersection has been brought forward, the NZ Transport Agency and Auckland Transport have announced. They are throwing $2 million into the blocked up artery at Warkworth to investigate design changes to the intersection. Designs put on the table by fed

To view the original article, please click here. Fix Hill Street Now organiser Grant McLachlan (left) is pictured handing over the petition to Rodney MP Mark Mitchell. (UPDATE 13/04/17) Following the lead story in Mahurangi Matters on April 12 (below) the NZ Transport Agency released the following media release on April 13. Planning for future of Hill Street intersection brought forward The NZ Transport Agency and Auckland Transport have brought forward planning for the futu

Newsletter #29 - 6 April 2017 Thursday arrived with a thud. We were flying high from our petition being tabled in Parliament yesterday. Many of the stakeholders at last week’s meeting didn't realise that, at the same time as the Clerk of Parliament was reading our petition in the House of Representatives, Auckland Transport and the New Zealand Transport Agency released a joint press statement that did not reflect the outcome of that meeting. Thud. PETITION Over the weekend, o

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Click here to visit the original article. The Fix Hill Street Now Action Group hand over more than 9000 signed documents to MP Mark Mitchell. More than 9000 signatures have been handed over to Rodney's MP Mark Mitchell to deliver to Parliament. Yesterday the Fix Hill Street Now action group handed a petition with 9092 signatures to Mitchell at the Bridgehouse in Warkworth in the hope to find a final solution for the intersection's congestion issues. With the petition, the gro