Three Waters ditches plans to provide $1.5 billion funding to councils
Updated 14 April, 2023:
Proposed legislative changes to address opposition to "Three Waters" announced by Local Government minister Kieran McAnulty
The number of new publicly owned entities to manage water, stormwater and waste-water services increases from four to 10
Start date pushed out to 1 July, 2026 instead 1 July 2024
Plans to provide $1.5 billion "better off" funding to councils abandoned
The $1.5 billion invested instead by the ten new publicly owned entities into providing water, stormwater and wastewater services
Raises questions about impact withdrawing "better off" funding from Council's will have on the financial books.
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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.
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