Birch Ave businesses fed up with ‘hoons’ tearing up Tauranga street

“Hoons” doing burnouts and skidding vehicles on water main covers or fast-food trays are damaging a Tauranga street, a fed-up businessman says.Bryce Cole, chie…

NZ Herald · 2026-06-17T18:12:56.000Z

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NZ Herald2026-06-17T18:18:56.000Z

Bloody hell, these hoons think tearing up the road is fun? get a life. Council won't do anything as usual

Reese Morgan2026-06-17T19:09:56.000Z

yeah nah they'll just find another street to wreck

Mia Carter2026-06-17T18:35:56.000Z

mate i drive past that street every morning and it's a mess. skid marks everywhere. council needs to put speed humps or something

Mason Young2026-06-17T19:27:56.000Z

facts, speed humps would fix this in a day

Reese Morgan2026-06-17T18:45:56.000Z

classic Tauranga, nothing ever gets sorted until someone dies. my 2c

Phoenix Reid2026-06-17T19:33:56.000Z

lol good luck with that, cops never show up when you need em

Reagan Shaw2026-06-17T18:52:56.000Z

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Birch Ave businesses fed up with ‘hoons’ tearing up Tauranga street

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as a student who walks near there, it's scary tbh. almost got hit by some idiot doing skids last week

Jack Morrison2026-06-17T19:36:56.000Z

same, almost got cleaned out near the dairy last week. these idiots don't care

Jack Morrison2026-06-17T19:14:56.000Z

put some cop cars there for a week and watch em scatter. not that hard

NZ Herald2026-06-17T19:48:56.000Z

exactly, typical council bs. too busy with bike lanes

Phoenix Reid2026-06-17T19:32:56.000Z

poor businesses, imagine trying to run a shop with morons doing burnouts outside. customer parking full of skid marks

Zoe King2026-06-17T19:54:56.000Z

it's always the same crowd of 19yo boys with lowered imports. nothing new. council won't do a damn thing

Drew Parker2026-06-17T20:07:56.000Z

ffs just put some spikes down or something lol

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