Western News: September 10, 2019

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•HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you think a right-turning bay should be installed on Main South
Rd? Email your views to georgia.oconnor@starmedia.kiwi
Intersection layout reconsidered
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
BUSINESSES frustrated by a
lack of direct access into their
shopping area may have their
concerns eased.
The Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board has
asked for its original decision to
ban vehicles from turning right
or making U-turns on Main
South Rd, opposite Harvard Ave
to be reconsidered.
RA Shearings Contractors
director Bob Shearing, DA
Lewis director Mark Lewis and
Chipmunks Playland & Cafe
Wigram business partner Dell
Lu have been calling for a rightturning
bay to be installed at the
intersection.
They made a presentation on
behalf of other businesses in the
area to the board recently asking
it to reconsider a report made by
city council staff.
A new report made by city
council staff concluded installing
a right turning bay will have
no benefit to improving the
safety of motorists.
It instead planned to improve
road-marking improvements
and re-enforce no right turn and
no U-turn movements.
City council staff were
required to look into the issue
after a petition of almost 150
signatures was collected calling
for a right-turning bay to
be constructed in the area in
February.
Following the presentation of
the report, the board asked the
no right-turn and no U-turn
sign to be reconsidered.
Mr Shearing, a former city
councillor, said he would have
liked to have seen the board a
bit more “forceful” in getting
the signs removed and a rightturning
bay installed.
But he said: “At least we are
still there and they can come
back (city council staff) and
hopefully something sensible
can be made out of the situation
and we will go back to the status
quo.”
Businesses had raised concerns
in the past that patronage
would decline due to customers
travelling into Hornby being
unable to directly access their
business.
In a presentation to the board
recently, Mr Shearing said hundreds
of vehicles need to make
right turns and U-turns somewhere
along this stretch of road.
“Prior to the installation of
CALL FOR
CHANGE:
Business owners
Bob Shearing
and Mark Lewis
want a turning
bay installed on
Main South Rd
opposite Harvard
Ave.
PHOTO: MARTIN
HUNTER
the signs in January these turns
were spread between the four
intersections, however, mostly
were at the Harvard Ave intersection,”
he said.
He argued there was never a
safety issue at the Harvard Ave
intersection.
New Zealand Transport
Agency crash data one crash was
recorded at the intersection.
City council is expected to
report back to the board in the
coming weeks with the review
to take into account road safety
and the impacts on commercial
businesses.
In Brief
DIVISION ST PARKING
Some of the existing 60min
short-term parking spaces on
Division St, Riccarton, could be
reduced. Visit www.ccc.govt.nz/
the-council/consultations-andsubmissions/haveyoursay/.
HALSWELL PONY CLUB
The Halswell branch of the
Christchurch Pony Club plans to
construct a cross-country course
at Canterbury Agricultural Park.
The club has requested $2000 for
the project from the Halswell-
Hornby-Riccarton Community
Board.
CLARIFICATION
In last week’s Western News
coverage of the new Hornby
Library, Service Centre and
South West Pool decision, a
photo caption of Anne Galloway,
Mike Mora, Debbie Mora and
Catherine Chu read as: “Anne
Galloway and Mike Mora voted
for a number of key steps to allow
the development of the Hornby
mega-facility to go ahead, while
Debbie Mora and Catherine Chu
voted against several changes.”
Western News wishes to clarify,
as stated in the article, Helen
Broughton and Miss Chu voted
against the changes, while Ms
Mora and Ross McFarlane either
voted against or abstained.
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