Fate of CBD
All businesses in CBD will be affected. No Victora Street Swimming pool, no Founders Theatre, no Celebrating Age Centre result people will not come into CBD, and now one of the only Kiwi Banks is also moving out. When affordable community facilities are disappearing in the CBD how can you attract the public to CBD to enable the shopkeepers to keep their doors open for business? The public will go to The Base where even the banks are open on weekends, soon we will find more empty shops in the city center.
What do you think of this new cycleway?
People are being warned not to park on a newly built cycleway in west Hamilton if they don’t want to be fined.
Construction is underway on a revamped protected cycleway on Rifle Range Road to help link Dinsdale, Frankton to Maeroa and Forest Lake.
What's your favourite piece of Waikato history?
Car parks inspired a milking shed design that took off around the world and became a piece of Waikato District history.
A hundred-year-old church and gravestones from the 1880s will also feature as the district turns the spotlight on its past for its first Heritage Day on April 20.
Have you seen a fire engine go over a raised platform?
Traffic calming measures are delaying response times for fire crews and putting lives at risk, a group of frontline Hamilton firefighters say.
Last month Hamilton City Council slammed the brakes on a number of not-yet contracted roading projects that would have installed more raised platforms and in-lane bus stops across the city after a “tsunami” of push-back from the public.
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