Selwyn Times: March 28, 2018

8 Wednesday March 28 2018
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SELWYN TIMES
Your Local Views
‘Take care at intersections’
Selwyn MP Amy Adams
writes about the district
council’s new road safety
campaign reminding
motorists to take care at
intersections
Amy Adams
Selwyn MP
I SEE that the district council has
recently launched a road safety
campaign reminding Selwyn
motorists of the need to take care
at intersections.
While I hope that this campaign
will help focus people’s attention
on the unacceptably high
rate of crashes at intersections in
our regions, I think we need to
do more.
Sixty one per cent of intersection
crashes in Selwyn are caused
by a failure to stop or give way.
Often drivers do not realise
they are approaching an intersection
until far too late.
One effective method of
alerting drivers early that an
intersection is coming up is using
warning signs.
Back in 2016, I was present
at the launch of the trial of
advanced warning signs at four
Selwyn intersections.
These active warning signs
were developed by Sergeant Dan
Harker and work by flashing
when a car is approaching an
upcoming stop sign.
The signs function by using solar-powered
flashing LED lights
and vehicle detection sensors.
The trial of these signs was due
to run until October last year
and if you drive around Selwyn
you will likely have noticed
them at the following four
intersections – Maddisons and
Weedons Ross Rds, West Melton
and Hoskyns Rds, Hamptons
and Shands Rds and Hoskyns
and Sandy Knolls Rds.
I would like to see additional
signs like this at other hazardous
intersections around Selwyn.
The district council has stated
that it has provided a report
to the New Zealand Transport
Agency on the results of the trial
and it has indicated that it is
considering trialling the signs at
other sites around the country to
further evaluate them.
On another note, I am pleased
to see that the latest quarterly
figures from Infometrics showed
that Selwyn’s economy continued
to strengthen during the latter
part of last year.
According to the figures,
Selwyn’s gross domestic product
grew by 3.9 per cent in the
December 2017 year, which is
well above the national average
of 2.8 per cent.
Retail spending in our district
also grew by a healthy 13 per cent
during the same period, once
again significantly outperforming
the national average of 4.3
per cent.
Spending by visitors to Selwyn
also grew by 14 per cent during
last year, with tourism expenditure
in the district totalling about
$102 million during the year.
PLANS: An extension to the Selwyn Aquatic Centre is
proposed to cater for the district’s growing population as part
of the draft Long Term Plan. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
Readers respond to
a Selwyn Times’ article
on population growth
remaining the greatest
challenge for the district
council as it launches into
its draft Long Term Plan
2018-2028
Jan and John Zervos – The
Canterbury Plains are beginning
to look like every other seething
metropolis.
Towns morphing into cities,
sardine sub-divisions, more
congested highways and
skyways, and a separation from
east to west. The haves and the
have-nots.
High-density living, industrial
disease and the problems that
come with it.
They’re old, backwards,
out-dated thought forms
regurgitated by consultancy
groups using computer
modelling to push a particular
perception of what the 21st
century could look like.
Who is it that wants that?
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