Ashburton Guardian, Monday, March 11, 2019

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Monday, Mar 11, 2019

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Comfort stop irks locals By Matt MarkhaM

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

You’re more than welcome to come into our town, but the only request is that you show it, and us, some common courtesy. That’s the strongly-worded message from Ashburton Mayor, Donna Favel after the district was shunted into the national spotlight on the weekend after a tour

bus allowed passengers to relieve themselves on the side of State Highway One in Tinwald, just kilometres from public restrooms. The bus, own by prominent busing company Pacific Tourways, pulled over across the road from the Tinwald Medical Centre on Friday evening and a number of patrons on the bus, men and women, were observed to hop off

and relieve themselves on the side of the road, or behind the bushes that split the road and the nearby railway line. Inspections later revealed that they had also left their discarded toilet paper at the scene. A local resident, who watched members of the touring group exit the bus and begin to relieve themselves on the side of the road

took to social media to air her disgust at the entire situation and it quickly snowballed from there, with Mayor Favel and local MPs, Andrew Falloon and Jo Luxton weighing in on the matter. The social media post had, as of yesterday, been shared more than 1000 times. Mayor Favel had made a couple of attempts to contact the

bus company at the centre of the incident but on Saturday only managed to reach an operational section of the business. She confirmed to the Guardian that she would be reaching out to them again this morning.

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