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Auckland Council’s mobile library service has been heading down the steep and winding road into Stillwater, and back up again, for five years.
However, the community was recently advised that the fortnightly service would be discontinued due to safety issues as the big bus negotiates the road.
On November 2, mobile library and access services manager Jo Brewster told the local board that the bus service would be ceasing immediately “due to a near miss incident with another car”.
She says the bus cannot safety drive down to Stillwater, as its size means it cannot navigate the winding road and on some corners it crosses the median line.
In addition, it appears just three Stillwater residents regularly use the service.
Next year Council will obtain two smaller vans, which it will deploy to reach “inaccessible and isolated areas” of the wider Auckland region.
“We will consider Stillwater to be one of these destinations, should the community use the service,” Jo Brewster says.
