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Basketball Referee mum lobbies Ganley makes for court P6 history P13 North Shore Times Tuesday, June 27, 2017 YOUR PLACE, YOUR PAPER Dodgem car streets FELICITY REID as the road is reduced to single lane and you can’t see what might be From the early hours of the coming around the corner until you morning, residential streets on the are both bonnet to bonnet,’’ a North Shore fill up with workers Santiago Cres resident said. securing a car park for the day, Another Santiago Cres resident much to the frustration of those has placed cones outside their whose houses they park in front of. property so they can access their The problem is rife across the own driveway. area, especially in streets close to Sunesh Bipat is fed up with public transport hubs or town inconsiderate parking in Birkdale Rd. centres. ‘‘People park on the side of the Porritt Ave has become a ‘‘park road even along yellow lines. This is and ride’’ for people catching buses a huge safety problem,’’ Bipat said. from Mokoia Rd, according to an ‘‘Most of the time it’s the same exasperated Chatswood resident. cars, which are not there at night, ‘‘It’s shocking,’’ the Porritt Ave only during the day. I am actually so resident said. fearful of where I park as I don’t ‘‘Cars parked both sides of the want to get fined, or worse towed, road down past Calman Place but some of these individuals just makes the road now one-way on don’t care.’’ weekdays. It’s very dangerous Car parks can sometimes be hard trying to back out of houses as you to come by; however, some parking can’t see for the sea of cars.’’ infringements are more costly than Residents of Tennyson Ave said others. their street is used by workers who Auckland Transport does not park and then make the short walk clamp vehicles and will only move a to central Takapuna to their job or vehicle if it’s a matter of road safety, to catch buses to the city. This obstruction or public interest. leaves the residents with no on- A ticket for parking on a yellow street parking. line will set you back $60. Commuters unable to find a Parking in a cycle lane, parking in park at the Constellation Bus a clearway, parking too close to a Station park and ride, spill out into driveway, parking on a berm and Unsworth Heights. parking in a bus stop are all fines of ‘‘Overflow passengers park in $40. our streets, often over corners, and Overstaying in a timed parking frankly it’s like playing dodgems to spot is subject to incremental fines get to my house at night after work from $12 up to $57. STUDY ENGLISH WITH CONFIDENCE SEMESTER B 31 JULY - 8 DECEMBER NO TUITION 5 locations Beginner to FEES FOR English with DynaSpeak can be your passport to Kiwi across Auckland. advanced levels. RESIDENTS! life! Make friends, access further study and upgrade your career. Flexible times, short courses, excellent teachers and great locations – to suit your life. 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This health specialists like psychi- comes after a number of posts atrists, as the mental health sys- on local Facebook pages about tem comes under strain. suspicious approaches to Experts said more children children, which police say had issues like anxiety and the contained inaccurate information. system showed signs of being Area Commander inspector under-resourced. Sunny Patel said while the posts Official figures from 2016 are well-intentioned, they could showed Waitemata District cause undue anxiety, confusion Health Board was failing to meet and concern. Any suspicious waiting time targets for non- approach to a child should be urgent mental health services. reported immediately and police The lack of performance was should talk with children about particularly startling for children what to do if they feel unsafe. aged under 12, with 108 children waiting more than eight weeks to SPCA COMES NORTH be seen by a DHB provider and a The SPCA is building a second further 255 waiting more than Auckland centre in Hobsonville, three weeks. which will include a doggy The Ministry of Health’s per- daycare. Auckland’s chief formance target was for 80 per executive Andrea Midgen said cent of young patients to be seen the sole South Auckland site within three weeks and 95 per Children under 12 had issues like anxiety, increasing demand on mental health services. 123RF.COM could no longer keep up with the cent within eight weeks. For volume of injured, neglected and under 12s in Waitemata, just 56 separations and behavioural Gibbs said the high waiting vene, the more effective that sup- abused animals it dealt with daily. per cent were seen in three weeks problems, said Carolyn Gibbs, the times were due to demand on the port will be.’’ The satellite site was located on and 87 per cent in eight weeks. national training manager for mental health system. ‘‘We see Both health minister Jonathan Rawiri Place, near Hobsonville Young people aged 12 to 19 Lifeline and specialist child signs of under-resourcing.’’ Coleman and Waitemata DHB Primary School and the Upper were also waiting longer than helpline, Kidsline.