Issues that impact widely or deeply on the Tamahere community.
For years the NZ Transport Agency turned a deaf ear to repeated pleas from Tamahere locals for a cut in speed on Airport Rd/SH 21 where local traffic is busiest.
Or so thought Tamahere people frustrated that NZTA wasn’t taking its own advice on safe speeds in an increasingly built up area.
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Broadcaster Pam Corkery is back from Australia, in quarantine at the Jet Park Hamilton Airport Hotel … and loving every minute of it.
Corkery has a regular slot on RNZ’s First Up programme, reporting her take on things Australian but recently she reported in from Tamahere.
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Jet Park Hotel Hamilton Airport, one of three Managed Isolation Facilities in the Waikato, will get some of the 57 extra New Zealand Defence Force personnel assigned to the region this week.
The additional staff will mean 74 Defence Force personnel will now be serving in the region .
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Construction of the Te Awa River Ride shared path between Cambridge and Hamilton is about to hit top gear, following its support by Government as a ‘shovel ready’ infrastructure project.
The next construction project to be let will be the Airport Rd/SH21, Tamahere underpass.
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The Waikato District Council is inviting feedback on its proposed Alcohol Control Bylaw.
The purpose of the bylaw is to reduce alcohol-related harm.
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Submissions are open on a review of the Waikato District Plan that focuses on polices and rules governing climate change and natural hazards.
A drop in session is being held in the Tamahere Community Centre, Devine Rd, on Tuesday, September 1 from 3pm to 6.30pm to enable locals to discuss issues with council officials before making their submissions.
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The first of around 133,000 plants, shrubs and trees to be planted in three gullies on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway were heeled in earlier this month.
The restoration work covers 10ha including the Mangaharakeke and Mangaone gullies at Tamahere.
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A couple quarantined at the Jet Park Hotel at Hamilton Airport have spoken out about their experience, praising those doing “a difficult job in such unusual times”.
Britons Jaqueline and Giles Fawcett wrote in support of their managed isolation experience.
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New Zealand will raise its Covid-19 alert level from midday, Wednesday, August 12 after four cases of the disease from an unknown source were detected in an Auckland family.
The more restrictive alert levels will apply for three days until midnight on Friday, August 14 before being reviewed. Outside of Auckland the alert level is 2; within Auckland it is level 3.
The Government will pick up the bill for the cycleway between Hamilton and Cambridge via Tamahere.
Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter announced today that the Te Awa River ride has got the green light as part of the $220 million nationwide cycleways investment and one of the “shovel ready” projects.
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