A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
I follow with interest the articles and letters about roads, etc. The barrier we hit is disinterest. As I use a wheelchair, my focus is footpaths. The council doesn’t want to repair and maintain existing footpaths. They want to build nice new ones; somewhere else. Will we need to drive thereto appreciate and enjoy them? Some years ago, Meredith Akuhata-Brown came out in my spare wheelchair. She photographed and filmed the safety hazards and obstacles within a couple of blocks of my home. Her report was delivered to the transport committee. To date none of those have been remedied yet. A couple of years later I hit an obstacle which nearly threw me out of the chair. My safety belt saved me. I reported it. Some time later I received a letter, that my report had gone into the wait-18-months-file. Now it had moved into a let’s-think-about-it file. I don’t know how long it takes to move from the let’s-think-about-it file, to shall-we-do-something file.
