* Whangarei - Logging and trucking industries asked to pay $132k
-- Logging and trucking industries will be asked to cough up cash to help solve a dusty road problem that has had residents up in arms for more than a decade... Whangarei District Council had allocated $400,000 over the next two years to seal ten 100m strips along the notoriously dusty Wright, McCardle and Pipiwai roads west of Whangarei, though the work was expected to cost $532,000, said WDC roading manager Jeff Devine... Ken Shirley, chief executive of New Zealand Road Transport Forum, said there was no mechanism for councils to get extra money from the trucking industry and that roads were already funded on a "user pays" basis through road user charges, fuel excise duties and oil motor registrations... However Far North District Council's manager of transport operations Wil Pille said sections of Diggers Valley Rd, Pipiwai Rd and Piccadilly Rd had been sealed with good faith contributions from the forestry industry - a similar outcome to what WDC hoped for... The companies had also agreed to voluntary speed restrictions...
(Photo by Graham Wright - Truck-generated dust at Pipiwai near Whangarei has been an ongoing issue for more than 10 years) -- Whangarei, NZ - The Northern Advocate, by Alexandra Newlove - Sep 14, 2015 Labels: infrastructures funds
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