Southern View: February 20, 2018

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Call for pedestrian crossing
• By Emily O’Connell
HALSWELL residents may
soon be able to walk across
Ensign St “safely” if a pharmacy
owner’s bid for a pedestrian
crossing gets across the line.
Karen Frater is worried someone
will get hurt crossing the
street outside
her Halswell
Pharmacy due
to speeding
vehicles.
“It is a
50km/h road
Mike Mora
but everyone
seems to be in
a hurry these days, I think that
happens on every road, but then
you’ve got a narrow road and
people who are not necessarily
100 per cent well,” she said.
Mrs Frater said many
residents park at the Halswell
Medical Centre and then cross
the road to the pharmacy to get
medication.
She said the street kerb is
“precarious for someone elderly
or with a walking frame.”
There has also been a few “near
misses” and residents have seen
a need for a crossing on the
street.
“So if we could get something
that slows people down in this
area, that would be a bit better,”
Mrs Frater said. She is also
worried about Oaklands School
and The Lighthouse Pre-school
pupils crossing the road.
She expressed her concerns
at a Halswell Residents’
Association meeting last month.
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board chairman
Mike Mora, member Ross
McFarlane, and a city council
staff member paid Mrs Frater
a visit to see the problem firsthand.
As a result, Mr Mora raised
the issue at the community
board meeting last week. The
board asked city council staff
to investigate a pedestrian
crossing.
Mrs Frater is pleased with the
progress and the “proactive”
approach from the residents’
RISKY CROSS:
Halswell
Pharmacy
owner Karen
Frater wants
a pedestrian
crossing
installed
on Ensign
St to make
it safer for
pedestrians.
PHOTO:
MARTIN
HUNTER
association, community board
and city council.
She hopes a pedestrian
crossing can be installed by July.
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do
you think crossing Ensign
St outside the Halswell
Pharmacy is dangerous?
Does it need a pedestrian
crossing? Email your
views to emily.oconnell@
starmedia.kiwi
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