Gorge Clean-up Challenge
January 18, 2012
As I have said previously, the actual job of cleaning up the Manawatu Gorge and gettting the road re-opened is a massive one and the fact that is taking such a long time is nobody’s fault. This photo, supplied by the NZTA, shows why.
You can see at the top where the ‘benching’ work (a bit like terracing) has got to so far. There is an awful lot of dangerous, expensive work ahead. We can expect the shocking Saddle Road to be overloaded for quite a while yet.
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Is it worth keeping the Gorge road open?
Nothing I’ve seen so far would indicate that it is as the only way to ensure that things like that slip don’t happen again is by cutting back the cliffs and that ain’t going to happen.
The Gorge highway is key to supporting the exports from Palmerston North’s distribution and manufacturing industry that it’s economy so heavily relies on.
The cost to the local economy is in the thousands per day.