GROWING COMMUNITIES: Tonks Ave Garden Party
Local residents gathered at the Tonks Ave community
gardens today, the last day of winter, for a working
bee and
birthday celebrations.
Tonks Ave is one of New Zealand's oldest original
streets, and lies in the path of the heavily
controversial proposed
Inner City Bypass. The garden is part of the
Community' project, and is a living symbol of the
dedication of the anti-'Bypass' and upper Te Aro
communities of Wellington to keep this area as a
thriving community space - despite Transit New
Zealand's best efforts to do otherwise.
Security guards sat in the sun, soaking up the rays
(and tax-payers dollars), and watched as locals got
their hands messy and had a laugh in the community
gardens.
Although it remains unclear whether they will get
for the Bypass project,
City Council have said that they are going to
relocate the heritage buildings - but it's hard to
imagine this sense of community spirit remaining in Te
Aro when it has a motorway on-ramp tearing
the middle of it.
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