Issues that impact widely or deeply on the Tamahere community.
Jet Park Hotel at the Hamilton Airport is to be an isolation facility until at least January 2021.
Its popular Propeller restaurant will also be out of bounds to the public for the next six months as the hotel does its bit “to keep Kiwis safe,>according to the hotel’s website.
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The need for walking and cycling routes in Tamahere that are safe from State Highway 1 traffic has been put directly to the government.
Earlier this month, Tamahere Community Committee (TCC) member James Yearsley put the case for an underpass from Devine Rd under the SH1 on-ramp to Parliament’s Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee.
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General rates will rise 3.49% in the Waikato District for the 2020-21 year.
The Waikato District Council yesterday confirmed the rate rise when it adopted its 2020/21 annual plan.
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Design work has progressed on an underpass of Airport Rd/SH21 as part of the Te Awa biking-walking path through Tamahere.
NZTA has released images that show it favours a skewed or angled crossing beneath Airport Rd.
The Transport Agency is seeking community feedback.
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A Waikato District Council report shows that 63% of Waikato households have reported a drop in income as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown.
In some of those households there has been a total loss of income. The report, available here, also showed:
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Work on the Waikato Expressway, including at Tamahere, may need to continue through winter – if weather allows – to make up for time lost during the Covid-19 lockdown.
In a recent progress update, NZTA said at the expressway’s Southern Interchange at Tamahere, the new link road is under construction from Birchwood Lane. Check out the explanatory graphic.
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Locals are calling for action after reports of worrying, suspicious behaviour in central Tamahere and trash littering the skate park.
Tamahere School principal Waveney Parker today alerted the community to people “acting suspiciously in the bushes located at the corner of Devine and Newell Road.
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Bruntwood Rd residents have successfully petitioned to have their road’s speed limit reduced to 80km/hour.
The one-off change came after consultation saw a swathe of roads in Tamahere’s more built up area have their speeds reduced last year.
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The Tamahere skate park and play ground will be (officially) open from Saturday, May 16 as Waikato district facilities slowly open again under Covid-19 lockdown alert level 2 conditions.
The Waikato District council said this week playgrounds will be sanitised and signage installed to remind people to keep 2 metres away from others they don’t know.
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Just days after lamenting that New Zealand’s mainstream media was in an “existential crisis” a leading media commentator has praised the courage of community news outlets during the pandemic lockdown, including those serving Tamahere.
“Thousands will no longer refer to the community newspaper that appears in their letterbox as “the local rag”, wrote Dr Gavin Ellis, who last month was the expert media witness to the Parliamentary Epidemic Response Select Committee chaired by Simon Bridges.
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