Southern View: June 11, 2020
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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
No-stopping restrictions<br />
for busy Spreydon street<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
ISSUES OF safety, speed<br />
and property access were the<br />
deciding factors as to why<br />
no-stopping restrictions will<br />
be installed on a busy Spreydon<br />
street.<br />
The Spreydon-Cashmere Community<br />
Board approved the<br />
proposal to place yellow lines on<br />
alternating sides of Rosewarne<br />
St in response to concerns from<br />
residents in the area.<br />
Yellow lines will be placed on<br />
one side of the road before swapping<br />
to the other side halfway<br />
through.<br />
To accommodate the new restrictions,<br />
some 15min car parks<br />
will be removed on the street<br />
which had a daily traffic average<br />
of 500 vehicles.<br />
Said city council acting transport<br />
operations manager Stephen<br />
Wright: “The no-stopping<br />
restrictions will help slow down<br />
vehicles, to address speeding<br />
concerns and makes it safer for<br />
people who are walking nearby.<br />
“Cars parked on both sides on<br />
the narrow street makes it hard<br />
UNSAFE: No-stopping restrictions will be installed on alternating<br />
sides of Rosewarne St, Spreydon, to address safety, speed and<br />
accessibility concerns.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
to drive down. If drivers meet an<br />
oncoming car, they sometimes<br />
need to reverse a fair way to allow<br />
the other vehicle to pass.”<br />
After a site investigation, city<br />
council staff found vehicles<br />
parked in an unsafe manner<br />
at some sections of the road by<br />
blocking footpaths.<br />
Advantages of the yellow<br />
lines would improve access for<br />
the residents and large vehicles<br />
passing by such as emergency<br />
vehicles and service trucks.<br />
The current layout prevented<br />
these larger vehicles from accessing<br />
the street due to parked cars<br />
on both sides of the road.<br />
Some residents were initially<br />
against the proposal and opted<br />
for speed bumps instead, arguing<br />
that the lines would make people<br />
speed as they used it as a short<br />
cut.<br />
Said Mr Wright: “Yellow lines<br />
along just one side of the street<br />
risks creating a clearway for people<br />
to speed down. This is why<br />
the council proposed installing<br />
the lines on alternating sides of<br />
the street, offering a balance of<br />
parking on both sides.”<br />
The city council will be<br />
installing the changes within<br />
the next two weeks.<br />
Yellow lines<br />
to improve<br />
safety<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
NO-STOPPING restrictions<br />
will soon be put in place on two<br />
streets in southern Christchurch.<br />
THe Spreydon-Cashmere<br />
Community Board approved the<br />
restrictions prohibiting vehicles<br />
from stopping at any time on<br />
parts of McCarthy St, Hoon Hay,<br />
and Kanuku Pl, Cashmere.<br />
Said city council acting manager<br />
of transport operations Stephen<br />
Wright: “Residents originally<br />
raised safety and access concerns<br />
with vehicles parking in these<br />
locations. Restricting parking for<br />
a short length of McCarthy St will<br />
make bus-turning movements<br />
safer and easier.<br />
“Kanuku Pl already had some<br />
lengths of stopping restrictions<br />
to help with access, however,<br />
there is a gap where parking is<br />
unrestricted on both sides of the<br />
street.”<br />
Mr Wright said the new<br />
restrictions will be installed in<br />
the next two weeks.<br />
Safety concerns were raised at<br />
these locations due to restricted<br />
visibility, minimal turning radius<br />
and reduced road width caused<br />
by on-street parking.<br />
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