A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
Your article on street congestion on Saturday was interesting. I have visited Gisborne twice over the last month and been in the process of writing on this. I have been really taken aback by the full-day congestion in the city — and not only the central city, from one end
to the other, all day. And like Mr Hadfield said, this has been building up over a period of time.
Having lived the majority of my life in Gisborne, including all my working years, it was starting to show at the completion of my employment as a taxi operator in 2006.
Over many visits since it has built up each time to the unbelievable situation you now have. Whatever you do, don't park near an intersection or a roundabout, you never get out . . . and it is going to take more than a collection of those to fix this.
For whatever reason, Gisborne has not had a continuous infrastructure programme to deal with its future. No vision.
Now you have so much to do at once, highlighted by your weekend paper, that the budget is going to be blown apart. Maybe you might just half-fix today, but by the time all that delayed work is finished you will be only marking time. Another tomorrow has arrived.
