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Cimino | 10 Aug 2024
This article began life a year ago, as a best-current-thinking footnote to
It’s a barge! It’s a boat! It’s the J Barry Ferguson . Titled
Purpose-Designed Flat-Bottomed, the footnote suggested that work-to-date estimating the probable cost of extending the…
Cimino | 5 October 2023
Myriad reasons make it preferable, for Buy Waiwera plan b, to instead be: Buy Waiwera – phase 2. That said, should the Buy Waiwera moonshot fail to make it to the launch pad, an end-to-end Mahurangi Coastal Path would make for a stunningly salubrious plan b. Buy…
Cimino | 28 Jun 2023
By any reasonable criteria, the J Barry Ferguson can be described as a landing barge. Clearly not in the assault-troop-landing sense, not least of all because of its diminutive size. In one very important respect, however, the J Barry Ferguson is not a typical…
Cimino | 30 Sep 2022
Prioritising private-light-vehicle access via Hungry Creek Road, ahead of a footbridge across Te Muri estuary, is countercounterproductive in response to suggestion of using a possibly more politic adjective than the ‘perverse’ used in the first draft, and my ‘pertinacious’ second stab… productivepossibly more productive adjective than the ‘perverse’ used in the first draft, and my ‘pertinacious’ second stab? policy making, utterly and hopelessly incompatible with Auckland Council’s own declared climate emergency. Fortunately, the tens…
Cimino | 4 Mar 2022 | updated 16 Aug 2024
Wenderholm, objectively, was where it started. While the 1729-hectare Centennial Memorial Park established in 1940 is recorded as Auckland’s first regional park, Wenderholm was the first of a half-century of regional parkland acquisitions that resulted in today’s…
Cimino | 10 Dec 2021
From day one, preserving the sense of splendid isolation that is Te Muri, was the mission of the Mahurangi Coastal Path. Since its 1973 purchase as regional parkland, Mahurangi West locals had had the run of Te Muri, or at least of the coastal margin of…
Cimino | 3 Jul 2021
Was it not for John Darrach’s 1880s activism, Saturday’s coffee-and-croissants drop-in day, in Mahurangi West’s former school, would have been held in Sullivans Bay. John Darrach was so exercised about the danger to the 23 Māori and 14 Pākehā children living at school-less…