Auckland CBD sinkhole to take four months to fix – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

Cafe owners near a sinkhole that has opened up on College Hill in Central Auckland say business has been disrupted as the council expects it will take four months to fix.

It began to concave on Monday, and is about two-and-a-half metres long.

Kauri Creek cafe owner Andy Smith said it got bigger relatively quickly.

”Amazingly, I was here yesterday (Monday) and I was walking by… I noticed that all the tarmac had sunken in, and I thought that was strange, and then half-an-hour later when I was walking back, a big chunk of it had fallen away.

“Two hours later, the whole thing had gone.”

There had been fewer customers in the cafe on Tuesday as a result of the road being blocked off, he said.

Cafe 28 had also been impacted. Owner Himanshu said the loss had been significant

”I haven’t seen any customers [because] I am totally lost, 80% loss of the business.”

He says as well as foot traffic, food deliveries have been cancelled.

”It’s very hard. All of the deliveries come, but they’ve cancelled all the deliveries – just because of that, nobody is coming here to pick up the deliveries.”

Cafe 28 staff member Gaurav Juneja was worried about the possibility of the sinkhole getting worse.

”These kinds of things happen so it’s not that big of a deal, unless they completely shut off College Hill Road and everyone driving around the area, so there wouldn’t be much traffic in the cafe. That is something I am worried about.”

Both cafe owners said they had not been notified by…