devonportflagstaff.co.nz
July 12, 2024
Blaze guts Belmont townhouse... p4
Local police diverted to fight CBD crime... p5
Interview: Life-skills expert Sue Kohn-Taylor… p20-21
Unplugged: AT cans ferry car-park chargers Auckland Transport (AT) is removing the two free electric-vehicle charging stations it installed at the Devonport ferry terminal car park eight years ago. The chargers, touted at the time as “smart pole” technology, were part of a $153,000 project, with $75,000 of that funded by a grant
from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. They have been plagued with problems and in recent times have carried signs showing them to be out of order. Their removal will leave the peninsula – which has a relatively high proportion of
electric vehicles – with just two public chargers, at the New World supermarket car park. AT told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board at a workshop last week that it had decided to remove the chargers rather than repair them again, and redesignate the two To page 2
Metal moggy has fan from afar
What a yarn... Seven-year-old Thea Pegler from Germany asked her Devonport grandmother, Jean Pegler, to knit this winter outfit for Devonport Library’s Benjamin cat statue. Story, page 3