Safety Improvements

Update | February 2022

A community meeting was rescheduled and held on the 29 November at the Pōrangahau Town Hall. A low turn-out, but there was interest in the programme among those who attended.

The safety improvement works are anticipated to run through to the end of the programme in June 2022.

Wimbledon Road is largely complete, for now. With vegetation works currently underway, the work has seen new signs, edge breaks repaired, lines painted and delineation installed. Next, the team will move onto Pōrangahau Road, starting from the south moving north

Update | October 2021

Downer commenced work in early August along Wimbledon road before quickly being halted by COVID-19 Alert Level 4 restrictions.
 
A community session was planned for Friday 20th August 2021 in Porangahau to allow the community to feed into the programme and offer areas of concern to the project team. This has been rescheduled to 29 November 2021 at the Pōrangahau Town Hall.

The safety improvement works are anticipated to run through to the end of the programme in June 2022.

Wimbledon Road is largely complete, for now. With vegetation works currently underway, the work has seen new signs, edge breaks repaired, lines painted and delineation installed. Next, the team will move onto Pōrangahau Road, starting from the south moving north.

Safety Improvements:

A safety review was carried out by Stantec road safety specialists, who carried out various assessments and collated improvement actions to be implemented within the programme. Some of these actions are being incorporated into existing scope (e.g new road barriers installed with new retaining wall constructions and signage on area wide pavement improvements).  

The scope and timing of these activities is not currently confirmed and additional funding may need to be sought to complete everything. All physical works will need to be completed by June 2022. 

Improvement opportunities were identified as follows: