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 want to put a question to the “town planners” and so-called experts in organising tourist events in Gisborne. Why have all of you ignored the most focal, vacant and ugly piece of land in the district?
I am going to leave out the old prison at Midway for somethingelse — the old railway station.
It has a number of existing buildings and plenty of parking with room for lots more to add at little cost.
Funnily enough, the rail line goes through the middle. What a great first stop!
Existing buildings and heaps of room for sellers and buyers — what a great place to have the farmers’ market.
I remember my father wanting to have no buildings on the seaward side of the beach along the existing road. He lost that argument but I think Gisborne lost a lot more.
