paparoa great walk
A new 45-kilometre Great Walk will be created near the Pike River coal mine as a memorial to the 29 miners who died at the site five years ago
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11545759
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/74033985/Tourist-track-an-insult-to-dead-Pike-River-miners-says-widow
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On the balance of all these aspects - I think I can live with it. I do believe it is a good plan and definitely fills a role in the area.
Good walk yes
Great walk maybe
Still dont like it being a memorial.
Chances are the govt will renege on this as well anyway
For anyone who might have missed it, @matthew has written a worthwhile article. http://tramper.nz/15882/pike29-memorial-money-maker/
I agree that using something like this as a memorial seems strange.
I also hadn't realised that Doc's funding has only been increased by$10m of $12m. Has anyone seen a plan for finding the other $2m? Track income, sponsors, or just something DOC has to magic up from elsewhere?
Frankly,I don't see what the fuss is about.
I know a lot of people on here are naturally suspicious of anything DOC/Government come up with but isn't this plan a good thing?
Encourages more people to tramp? Tick
Opens up an area of naural beauty? Tick
Brings economic benefit to an area that needs it? Tick
Majority of the families been involved/support it? Tick
Makes the Govt spend money on tracks/huts etc? Tick
Given the effort required to actually get to the mine area forget about lots of camera weilding tourists traipsing around disrespecting the place.
There are lots of examples of memorial walks that are popular and give due respect to the places they are....think WW1 sites,Normandy,Gettysburg etc.And those are places that have huge vistor numbers,not a remote(ish) track on NZ's West Coast.
I'd have thought we'd be supporting another Great Walk,or do we just want theses areas to ourselves?
how far is this place from westport and greymouth?
southern end is a few k's from greymouth, northern end is half way in between
if 500 tourists a month use it that wouldnt otherwise of gone to the west coast they will see a benifit
depends, some of those tourists would have been passing through anyway, not everyone will be travelling there specifically to walk the track
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"I'd have thought we'd be supporting another Great Walk,or do we just want theses areas to ourselves?"
I don't more people having improved access to places. But if anything I'd be questioning whether the highly expensive and often recreationally restrictive technique of a Great Walk is necessary to achieve that. Will it, either now or later, divert resources from other recreation in the area? Could the same money provide access more effectively if it wasn't being focused into a specific tourist attraction? Will it make other DOC spending (such as on other Great Walks) less efficient?
I'm undecided about the merits of a Great Walk here, but this is the first Great Walk being built in ages and it's for completely different reasons to those which came before it. I'd like to know more about what it means for future decisions.
I could go on about things like DOC being in the tourism business, the decision being made without consulting anyone except the families which the walk is being named after, the spin in Nick Smith's press release, every other region which wants national resources spent on a Great Walk to boost its own local tourism, and other recent instances where DOC's acted as if it's being subjected to political pressure to break its own rules that are meant to prevent bad stuff from happening, but it's already been said.
i agree with mathew, its vulgar to make a great walk a memorial walk... it doesnt have to be a great walk, they are already promoting it.
there are unrecovered bodies in the mine. great walks are very generic in the way they are promoted, its incongruous to make the walk a great walk. they are just putting a generic great walk in and trying to pass it of as a memorial walk..., its not well thought out, and the families of the deceased are divided on the idea themselves
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