AT could withhold $1 million in path funding

The $1 million set aside for a Francis St-Esmonde Rd cycleway and walkway is at risk of being taken away by Auckland Transport (AT).

The AT stance was a “massive disappointment”, said Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chair Toni van Tonder. “I don’t want to lose that money for our community.”

In all, $1.2 million had been allocated from the Local Board Transport Capital Fund for AT to deliver the project – the previous local board’s top priority over its three-year term.

But except for $200,000 for initial design work, the money has gone unspent.

The current board, elected last year, wants

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the funding carried over so the stalled project won’t be canned.

“We can’t give you any guarantee the money will be coming back to the board,” an AT staff member told board members at a local-board workshop last week.

The money was meant to

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