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Speaker 1: Come and meet the team working on the second to

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Speaker 1: Ashburton River Bridge MZTA and to Ashburton District Council hosting

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Speaker 1: an information session on Thursday. Lonnie Delzel from n ZTA

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Speaker 1: is the project manager for this thing. I managed to

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Speaker 1: catch up with him and quite exciting. Now that we've

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Speaker 1: got the contractor locked in Fletcher's, we've got the architects

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Speaker 1: working on some drawings. Have you seen some initial sketches? Lonnie?

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Speaker 1: What are we looking at here? Something equivalent to say,

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Speaker 1: Sam Frans Golden Gate Bridge or their coat hangar over

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Speaker 1: Sydney Harbor.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to set expectation too high, but it

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Speaker 2: will be a nice wide bridge with two traffic lanes.

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Speaker 2: It will have pedestrian and cycle facilities across it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we will be able to walk across it. Cool.

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Speaker 2: It will yeah, no more clip ons like the old bridge.

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Speaker 2: There's about two point five kilometers of new road, which

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Speaker 2: includes the three hundred and sixty meter long bridge, which

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Speaker 2: is kind of the key point. But then that connects

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Speaker 2: to Cutters and then Cutters goes through until.

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Speaker 1: Graham's Road right, and then you'd take Graham's Road to

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Speaker 1: get back onto the trunk line.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there'll be a new roundabout there which gives a

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Speaker 2: bit easier access up to the new set of lights

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Speaker 2: that's on State Highway one. Jeez.

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Speaker 1: Great if you live at Lake Hard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll provide big opportunities for the Tinwold and lake

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Speaker 2: Hood community that's been identified by the council as the

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Speaker 2: area of development, so it will support that.

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Speaker 1: I guess what's great about this new project is we're

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Speaker 1: not replacing the existing bridge, so when it comes to disruption,

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Speaker 1: disruption should be at a minimal.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's right. Greenfield's projects is what we call

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Speaker 2: these ones where we're not building on or next to

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Speaker 2: existing in the treasure, so those are called brown fields.

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Speaker 2: Green Fields is I think obviously because we're going through

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Speaker 2: green paddocks generally. But really the only interactions there will

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Speaker 2: be through those local roads that I talked about earlier,

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Speaker 2: being Carter's, Wilkins, Johnston Graham's where we tie back into

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Speaker 2: the existing work, and on the Charmers side where we

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Speaker 2: upgrade from South Road to where the new bridge is going.

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Speaker 2: But apart from that, there should be very little disruption

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Speaker 2: for the community.

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Speaker 1: You don't call those other sites brown fields because it

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Speaker 1: has the potential of turning people's commute into poohs.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Lonnie Paps. This isn't necessarily a full green fields

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Speaker 1: project in the sense that we do have a few

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Speaker 1: existing residents that are going to need to be evicteds.

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Speaker 1: There's been some press in our local papers lately about

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Speaker 1: the lizards and the gulls that call that area of

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Speaker 1: the river just under the existing bridge home. We're going

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Speaker 1: to need to move them on. Had some snazzy ideas

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Speaker 1: from the kids at the science fhere just before. Have

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Speaker 1: you given this some thought? What are we going to

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Speaker 1: do about the gulls?

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Speaker 2: So we've just completed some work in conjunction with Environment

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Speaker 2: Cannibury about providing alternative nesting locations further upstream, doing as

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Speaker 2: much as we can to try and convince the birds

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Speaker 2: to go nest somewhere else rather than on our construction site.

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Speaker 2: It's the nesting season for the goals starts this month,

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Speaker 2: so it goes through to February, so we'll have a

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Speaker 2: really good idea about where they're going to nest and

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Speaker 2: if there's a success before we actually start our main works.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons of doing it early.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're handy. Right gee, I'll tell you what. In

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Speaker 1: full flight and the height of the season, you drive

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Speaker 1: over that existing bridge loanly and it's hard to believe

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Speaker 1: they're endangered.

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Speaker 2: They're everywhere, man, Yeah, that's what I've heard, and they

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Speaker 2: can be a bit uncomfortable for some of the pedestrians

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Speaker 2: when they're crossing over as well. Of course, there's not

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Speaker 2: a lot of colonies of them, so it's where they

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Speaker 2: choose to nest.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So this new home that we can try and

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Speaker 1: make for them, are we going to try and make

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Speaker 1: that a permanent thing as.

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Speaker 2: Much as possible, So we'll be doing it every winter

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Speaker 2: season over the next few years during our construction period.

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Speaker 1: Loving the birds not just about cement and rebar Environmental

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Speaker 1: works all part of this too. So perhaps you've got

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Speaker 1: and burning questions such as what to do about the

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Speaker 1: gals around the second at Ashburton River Bridge. You can

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Speaker 1: pop along to this poppin session at the library three

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Speaker 1: thirty till six thirty on Thursday,