Bay Harbour: April 26, 2017

Wednesday April 26 2017
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Governors Bay could pilot
speed reduction measures
• By Julia Evans
GOVERNORS BAY could
be a used as a pilot to
launch speed reduction
methods around the rest of
the peninsula.
Drivers struggle to see
smaller settlements ahead
of them due to thick,
overgrown trees and a lack
of bold signage. As a result,
vehicles speed through the
settlements, according to
the Governors Bay Road
Safety Working Group.
Members Rosie Belton
and Robin Anderson made
a deputation to the Banks
Peninsula Community
Board on ways to make
Governors Bay Rd safer for
residents.
The board is looking at
using ideas from the deputation
as a starting point
to address similar issues
across the ward.
The main issue the working
group has is that it is
very hard to tell the difference
between open road
and settlements.
“It doesn’t look like
you’re coming into a community,
it’s often hard
to tell because there’s no
defined difference,” Mrs
Belton said.
At the board meeting,
the group proposed improving
signage at settlement
boundaries, another
set of signs to reinforce
the speed limit, 50km/h
road markings and speed
activated signs to be moved
throughout the peninsula.
“The signage just needs
to be more noticeable,”
Mrs Belton said.
The working group also
suggested lowering entry
speeds into settlements
from 100km/h down to
70km/h.
Mrs Belton has been
campaigning for lower
speed limits and safer
roads in the area for more
than a year.
The working group was
happy with the outcome of
the meeting.
“The (board members)
were very responsive. We
came away feeling they
were definitely going to
action something,” Mr
Anderson said.
City council staff estimate
making the suggested
changes – excluding a reduction
in the speed limits
– may cost about $22,000.
McCaw immortalised in bronze
•From page 1
He said the determination
that is needed by
someone to captain the All
Blacks so successfully was
commendable.
“It is a humongous
amount of pressure to experience
and you can’t get
a better rugby player than
Richie McCaw.
“He’s a bloody good guy.”
The statue was announced
last August and
Oamaru artist Don Paterson
was removed from the
project earlier this year.
Mr Whyte said once the
project starts getting under
way it will take three to
fours months to create the
clay casing and about half
a year for the statue to be
completed.
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