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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
BUILDING STRONG FOUNDATIONS CLOE WILLETTS Innovative measures have been put in place to prevent costly tagging on MacKays to Peka Peka Expressway sign boards at Kapiti Road. “Our first lot of story board signs didn’t last the night before being tagged,” said Alliance communications manager Sarah Ropata, whose team faced expensive printing bills following multiple overnight tagging stints. In an effort to deter taggers, project health and safety manager Tim Barry discussed methods used in a similar urban construction project in Australia, which employed local graffiti artists to work with, rather than against, the issues of tagging. Following suit, they approached local artist Theo Stechman to cover the container walls with a projectinspired mural, through aerosol street art. “I’m really delighted with the results from Theo, and I think he’s captured the spirit and energy of what the team are doing brilliantly,” Mrs Ropata said. Briefed to interpret the story of work at Kapiti Road using his own style and words, the owner of New Zealand clothing brand Ill Magik jumped at the chance to leave is mark on the project. “I've painted a construction scene with a digger and a truck, with the landscape being moved and altered,” said the 24-year-old, whose exclusive street-infused
SCENERY: Theo Stechman painting the walls of a MacKays to Peka Peka Expressway container on Kapiti Road with aerosol street art. It is hoped the innovative approach will prevent further overnight tagging. PHOTO: CLOE WILLETTS / KAP171214CWTHEO clothing range is available at recently-opened Raumati Beach men’s store Holy Smoke, as well as online. “I’ve written the words Building Strong Foundations, which is a
positive message when applied to pretty much anything, and the M2PP’s motto Better Connections. “I liked the sound of that not just for roads, but in general.” On the opposite wall he has
spray painted a collection of indigenous plants flora and fauna, whose inspiration stemmed from the M2PP’s planting of 140 hectares of new locally-sourced native plants.
“I paint to create, promote positivity, and as an escape,” said the quick-handed multimedia artist. “It is like a form of meditation for me, which inspires others.”
Crash ‘near perfect storm’ DAVID HAXTON A “near perfect storm” had developed on the day a plane and helicopter collided over Paraparaumu Airport, Coroner Ian Smith says in his findings about the crash which claimed three lives. On Sunday February 17, 2008, at 11.12am, a light fixed wing aircraft flown by 17-year-old student pilot Bevan Hookway, and a small helicopter, being flown by 19-year-old student pilot James Taylor and 30-year-old flight instructor David Fielding,
collided mid air over Paraparaumu. Taylor and Fielding died after the helicopter crashed through a roof in Placemakers, while Hookway died five hours later in hospital after his plane crashed in Dennis Taylor Court. Mr Smith’s report, his last to be approved before he died in October, said a “near perfect storm” had developed on the day of the crash through a “clear combination of events”. He said the operation allowing aircraft to operate in opposing circuits created a potential for a
collision and was a flawed concept. The removal of height separation in 2006, when a noise abatement procedure was instigated, exacerbated the danger of conflict. The limitations of powers to promulgate rules on operational procedures at uncontrolled aerodromes especially ones with significant traffic movements, was an issue. There was possible confusion for the pilots’ regarding radio transmissions coupled with their preoccupation with the flight
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testing pressures they were undergoing and their relative inexperience. Closing speeds showed little reaction time to avoid a collision and there were limitations on the concept of ‘see and avoid’. And there was missed opportunity after a 1996 risk assessment recommended the introduction of specific joining procedures. Mr Smith said at the time of the collision “there had been less than a robust application of ensuring that the airport and its users met the standards expected.”
He extended his condolences to the family and friends of the deceased and apologised for the delay in completing the finding. “It has been a very long and exhaustive process with many challenges. “I had been to the site on the day of the collision and witnessed the aftermath and the loss of loved ones — those three young men in their prime.” Paraparaumu Airport has since been renamed Kapiti Coast Airport and a large number of safety procedures and other measures implemented.
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