Kind reminder: NIGHT TIME CLOSURES OF ROYAL RD BRIDGE OVER SH16
Hello fellow neighbours
Just a friendly reminder
Forward from NZTA:
Planned night-time closures of the Royal Rd Bridge over State Highway 16 will occur most nights during a four week period from Mon 20 May, with local detours in place. The closures will take place between 8pm and 5am on most nights from Sunday to Thursday each week. These works will be weather dependent and may be cancelled or postponed at short notice. Please note that the motorway on-ramp and off-ramp will both remain open, unless a SH16 full motorway closure is also required.
The new bridge at Royal Rd has greater height clearance over the motorway than the one it replaced. The closures are to allow the road on the eastern side and the on-ramp to the motorway to be built up to the same height as the bridge. These construction works are a part of the SH16 Lincoln to Westgate project which will improve the Northwestern Mwy and support expected growth in the western suburbs and increased traffic using the Western Ring Route. More: ow.ly... ^MF
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The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
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DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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