Covid thoughts/planning

Dave from Levin

www.stuff.co.nz... pretty relevant at the moment and worth a read . Our immediate neighbourhood have followed the recommendation and it is already in use . For those who don't want to read the whole thing it basically says "your covid support plan probably depends on people who , if you think about it , will all be your close contacts and thus isolating themselves . So talk to your neighbours and set up a small neighbourhood support group i.e. who can walk your dogs or get you a bottle of milk and leave it at your front door

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1 day ago

Driven On The Akatarawa Rd Lately?

Marie from Waikanae

If so, its good to know you are still alive and reading this.

We have a function to go to over Christmas up that way and having heard a few hairy stories about the road, I went up there on Thursday to check it out. The road's ok, narrow and winding, but not much worse than a Wellington hill suburb. What was pretty scary was the behavior of other drivers. Three vehicles heading the other way at speed would have crashed into me if I hadn't been pulled off the road. I had pulled in to check the address when a truck came flying past, taking up all of the narrow road at speed. There is no way the driver would have been able to stop had they come around the corner immediately in front of me. The other two drivers came hurtling past as I had turned in to turn around and come back down the hill. They were also driving at speed and taking up most of the road. Coming back down I passed another car coming up and estimate that the safe speed to pass another car was about 30-35 kms.p.h. So, now we're thinking, do we go to the function or not.? Feels a bit like we're taking our life in our hands going up there. Drivers appear to be overconfident, and they are courting serious injury.