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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Wednesday August 14 2019 7 News Petition under way in a bid to improve safety at intersection • By Devon Bolger WEST MELTON residents are taking their fight for safety improvements on a controversial intersection to Parliament. The West Melton Residents’ Association is collecting signatures for a petition to urge the Government to approve funding for immediate action on the State Highway 73 and Weedons Ross Rd intersection. So far the petition has more than 650 signatures. Association chairman Tim Schurr said they Tim Schurr decided to start the petition after proposed improvements to the intersection were pushed back. “As a committee, we figured that is not good enough and we started looking at the options of what we could do to cast a light on the situation,’’ he said. “Our only hope is to keep putting a spotlight on this because nobody else in Canterbury is going to do it. It’s up to us and a petition is one of the ways we can do that.” CAMPAIGN: The West Melton Residents’ Association is collecting signatures for a petition wanting immediate action at the intersection of State Highway 73 and Weedons Ross Rd. Selwyn MP Amy Adams has also been advocating for an upgrade of the intersection and said she supports the petition. “A member of the residents’ association met with me a few months ago and sought my advice on how she and other West Melton residents could continue to raise the profile of this issue,” she said. Mrs Adams will personally deliver the petition to Parliament in November. “I am very supportive of the petition and have shared it on my Facebook page in order to encourage local residents and concerned road users to sign it.” The residents’ association has been campaigning for more than 10 years for something to be done about the intersection. “That whole roading corridor was due to be updated from Yaldhurst right through to Aylesbury and part of that upgrade included the intersection,’’ Mr Schurr said. “That all changed last year, budgets were adjusted and the New Zealand Transport Agency Tickets 7 MARCH On Sale LINCOLN Now www.selwynsounds.co.nz withdrew the project. We were left without a plan.” It was revealed last October that safety improvements at Weedons Ross Rd and SH73 weren’t included in the NZTA’s National Land Transport Programme for 2018-21. The improvements had been recommended for inclusion in both the 2018/21 Regional and Land Transport programmes. NZTA figures show there have been 11 crashes at the intersection since 2006. One was serious and 10 were minor or didn’t cause injury. NZTA director regional relationships Jim Harland said the intersection didn’t meet the new threshold for funding under the investment assessment framework. “Using this framework, it was assessed as a medium crash risk and safety alignment, with a low benefit cost ratio,’’ he said. Mr Schurr said he hopes the petition leads to traffic lights being installed at the intersection. •HAVE YOUR SAY: Have you had a close call at the Weedons Ross Rd and SH73 intersection? Email your views to devon.bolger@ starmedia.kiwi Delay over quarry information INFORMATION requested from Fulton Hogan over its application to open a quarry in Weedons has been delayed. The district council and Environment Canterbury had requested information on the volume of groundwater which would be extracted from the quarry, bird strike mitigations, and an update on draft conditions. Fulton Hogan has also been asked to provide more information on how its mobile processing plant will be used. The information was due back on Friday but due to ECan and the district council asking for further information on traffic, noise and landscape, Fulton Hogan has more time. The information will now be released on August 16. Weedons Residents’ Association committee member Simon Moore said it’s a continuation of the process bending over backward for the applicant. “It’s just another example of ‘we’ll give you whatever time you want to get yourself sorted out, don’t worry it’s not a problem and again no consultation with those affected.”
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