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RNZ News
5 days ago
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- RNZ News
Mt Messenger contractors making strides underground and overhead
Contractors have offered a sneak-peak at two of the main features of Te Ara o Te Ata - the Mt Messenger Bypass on State Highway 3 in Taranaki. A huge road-heading machine is excavating a 235m-long tunnel under the highest point of the maunga and construction of a 125m-long bridge toward the southern end of the project is underway. The six-kilometre $360 million bypass aims to deliver a safer more resilient route north out of Taranaki, avoiding an existing steep and windy stretch of highway which includes a narrow tunnel. NZTA project manager Caleb Perry. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Waka Kotahi project manager Caleb Perry said the tunnel, which was 65m below the summit, was a key component of the project. "The tunnel is 235m-long or will be once we've broken through and it's excavated in two headings. So, what we're standing in now is the top heading and the final road level will be about 3m below our feet here. "So, we break through with this top heading out the other side probably in about October/November time this year. Then we bring all the team back to the start, drop down about 3m and carry on and remove what we call the bench." Perry said two-lane bridge would be 13m wide by 9m high, giving an over-dimensional traffic envelope of 10m wide and 6m high when an emergency exit passage was installed one side and the lighting and fire safety equipment installed the roof. Inside the tunnel. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Tunnel supervisor Steve Wiley. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin A Tūrangi local, tunnel supervisor Steve Wiley learned his trade in Australia. "A typical day underground is pretty much excavation, shotcrete, curing time and excavating again." He loved life underground. "It's just a challenge. You have challenging days, good days. And it's the people, you know, you run into some really good characters working underground." Roadheader operator Carlos Cooper. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Carlos Cooper pilots the 110-tonne road-header given the name 'Hinetūparimaunga' - the atua of mountains and cliffs - by project partners Ngāti Tama. "She's one of the nicest machines you can drive in underground tunnelling. She's pretty good and particularly with this ground it's pretty soft, so she's easy cutting on this particular project." The 110 tonne roadheader machine in the Mt Messenger tunnel. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin He also earned his stripes across the ditch. "In Australia is where I started. I had a few mates who got into the underground game and I haven't looked back since." The Whanganui local outlined his day. "Arrive for a briefing at about 6.30am and come up here about 7am. Get into cutting mode and then it will take approximately two, two and a half hours to cut 1.2m and then we'll much the face out and shot crete will come in and do their bit and we'll bolt after that and shotcrete again." Cooper was looking forward to emerging at the other end. "It's quite a relief one of those special days you can look back on and tell your grandkids yeah you were on that project and it was one to remember. He hoped to take a spin on the new highway once it was finished. "Absolutely, yeah, hopefully I'll be one of the first." Bridge building boss Nick Myers-Kay. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Senior project engineer Nick Myers-Kay was in charge of constructing the project's longest bridge - which actually involved building two bridges. "Currently we're standing on the 110m of temporary staging that needs to be constructed ahead of building the permanent bridge which is going to be located out to the right of us here. "In the background here that's the first lot of permanent earthworks that the bridge is started on. That's pretty much where the abutment is going to start. The bridge had raking piers. That keeps the pier foundations out of the wetland." The view from a service road down to the tunnel head. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin He said the temporary bridge - on which a 28 tonne crane was operating - helped minimised damage to the wetland below. "The immediate challenge is the environment. I'm new to this area I've never worked in this region before, so I'm quite amazed at the ruggedness and steepness of the terrain around us. "It's obviously very beautiful country here too the bush is just spectacular, so that is obviously a major challenge for us to navigate our way around that." It was a point project manager Caleb Perry reinforced. "This is a really important part of the natural environment here at the headwaters of the Mimi Stream and you can see off to the side the kahikatea swamp forest which is one of the last inland wetlands that we are working as hard as we can to protect." A digger operating in the tunnel. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin That went as far as bending trees out of the way. "You can see around me there are few trees with tie-downs, ropes around them. We basically put a team of ecologists in a basket hang them from a crane and the try and bend some of those trees out of the way, so the temporary bridge can go through. "After we've built the main structure this temporary bridge won't be needed anymore and the team will come back and let the trees bounce back into their natural position." A 28 tonne crane preparing to place a pile from the staging bridge at the construction site of the 125m steel girder bridge. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin The permanent bridge was due to be completed by September 2026. New Zealand Transport Agency was still embroiled in a Public Works Act wrangle for land required for the project at its northern end. If that was successful, it would take about four years to complete the bypass. A surveyor working at the tunnel face. 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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man allegedly drove 112 mph during chase in downtown Granby before 2nd chase arrest: sheriff
DENVER (KDVR) — A man is in jail accused of driving more than 100 mph through downtown Granby eluding Grand County sheriff's deputies before being arrested during a second pursuit in Garfield County. This all happened on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the Grand County Sheriff's Office, and the man, identified as Illinois 29-year-old Caleb Perry, was arrested by Garfield County deputies and faces charges in both Grand and Garfield counties. At least 6 shot overnight during Colorado Springs 'active shooter' situation: police Deputies in Grand County first contacted Perry at around 1 p.m. at the Adams Tunnel, 100 Tunnel Access Road, in Grand Lake for a suspicious person and vehicle, a black Jaguar, in a no-parking area. A man was seen on surveillance footage pulling on doors to the tunnel and urinating, according to the sheriff's office. 'Perry was cooperative and subsequently released on scene with a warning for trespassing,' the sheriff's office said of that incident. About an hour later, a sheriff's office sergeant contacted Perry driving the same vehicle near U.S. 34 and U.S. 40 just outside of Granby after a citizen estimated he was going 80 mph in a 50-mph zone and passing on double yellow lines. Another citizen also reported the double yellow passings. CSP to increase DUI enforcement ahead of deadliest days of summer While the sergeant was preparing citations for the traffic violations, 'Perry suddenly sped away nearly causing a collision on the Highway as he fled the parking lot,' according to the sheriff's office. Two additional deputies in the area started pursuing the fleeing vehicle as it continued on U.S. 40 in Granby, and one deputy reportedly clocked Perry's speed at 112 mph in a 30-mph speed zone near the intersection of 5th Street and East Agate Avenue, which is U.S. 40 in Granby. The deputies then stopped the pursuit after evaluating the safety concerns to the public, according to the sheriff's office. Later that day, though, the sheriff's office learned Perry had allegedly been involved in a pursuit with Garfield County sheriff's deputies and was taken into custody. He was booked in the Garfield County Jail on counts of Vehicular Eluding, Reckless Driving, Speeding and Passing on Left Where Prohibited. The next day, Grand County deputies also prepared their own arrest warrant for Perry on counts of Vehicular Eluding, Reckless Driving, Speeding (82 miles per hour over the speed limit), Passed on Left When Not Clear to Traffic and Passed on Left When Prohibited. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
25-05-2025
- CBS News
Fleeing driver allegedly hits 112 mph as he speeds though Colorado mountain town's downtown
An Illinois man is in custody after two chases in two Colorado counties on the same day. The Grand County Sheriff's Office said its deputies first made contact with the driver on May 21 just after 1 p.m. They say they were called to check on a suspicious person parked in a no-parking zone. They found a man, later identified as Caleb Perry, 29, at the scene. Deputies gave him a warning for trespassing and let him go. Just about an hour later, deputies received a report about a reckless driver near Granby. He was allegedly speeding and passing on double yellow lines. The driver, Perry, initially pulled over, but he allegedly sped off while the sergeant was writing a citation. Deputies in the area pursued him, and at one point, they say they clocked him driving 112 mph in a 30 mph zone. "Thirty miles per hour and you're going 112 miles per hour through downtown Granby," Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said. "People trying to pull over as quick as they can. It's hugely problematic." Deputies say they called off the pursuit for safety reasons. Then, a few hours later, Garfield County sheriff's deputies tried to stop Perry near the town of Silt, but he allegedly sped off again. The chase eventually ended with stop sticks disabling the vehicle near Glenwood Springs, and Perry taken into custody. Caleb Perry Grand County Sheriff's Office Schroetlin believes the justice system needs to do more to discourage drivers from breaking the law and running from police. "The fines are so low, the accountability is so low, yet the risk to our community is high," Schroetlin said. "You come up here and you commit a crime, we're going to hold you accountable. Our community demands it."
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Yahoo
MMA fighter kicked out of NYC gym returns, stabs victim in back
A mixed martial arts fighter at a gym in Chelsea was stabbed three times in the back Saturday by an ex-member who was kicked out last year, cops said. Caleb Perry, 23, entered into Radical Mixed Martial Arts — a combat fighting and self-defense gym — on West 29th Street at Seventh Avenue around 11 a.m. and went looking for management, according to police. He then got into a fight with the 24-year-old victim before stabbing him in the back repeatedly with a knife, police said. Apparently Perry had his gym membership revoked sometime last year for an undisclosed reason, a police source told The Post. Cops arrested him at the scene. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Perry was charged with attempted murder, assault and burglary, cops said. He was awaiting arraignment Saturday.
