Nor'West News: November 24, 2022
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Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 3<br />
New safety platforms among<br />
raft of proposed improvements<br />
• By Natalie Pham<br />
PROPOSED changes for a busy<br />
intersection in Shirley are a<br />
step closer after a heated debate<br />
among community board<br />
members.<br />
The Waitai Coastal-Burwood-<br />
Linwood Community Board had<br />
to undergo additional discussion<br />
before giving the green light to<br />
the safety improvement proposal<br />
for the Briggs/Marshland/Lake<br />
Terrace Rds intersection.<br />
It came after a number of<br />
board members expressed<br />
concern about raised safety platforms<br />
on all approaches to the<br />
intersection, which was among<br />
the proposed changes.<br />
Raised platforms are a traffic<br />
calming measure to reduce the<br />
speed of vehicles entering an<br />
intersection to 30km/h.<br />
They were first installed<br />
in Christchurch at the busy<br />
intersection of Lincoln Rd, Barrington<br />
Rd and Whiteleigh Ave,<br />
but the city council is proposing<br />
to use raised platforms at other<br />
high-risk intersections.<br />
City council senior transportation<br />
engineer Gemma Dioni said<br />
they would be a key tool in the<br />
Road to Zero strategy.<br />
“From a system perspective, we<br />
CHANGES: New traffic calming measures are proposed for the intersection of Marshland,<br />
Briggs and Lake Terrace Rds.<br />
PHOTO: STAR NEWS<br />
are trying to reduce the number<br />
of death and serious injury<br />
crashes on our network,” Dioni<br />
said.<br />
Other proposed changes<br />
include a new traffic island, kerb<br />
extensions and a new cycle lane<br />
on Lake Terrace Rd.<br />
With five out of nine board<br />
members giving the proposal the<br />
thumbs up, it is now awaiting<br />
the approval of the Waipapa<br />
Papanui-Innes-Central Community<br />
Board, as Briggs Rd is part<br />
of the Innes Ward.<br />
If both boards approve it,<br />
construction is expected to start<br />
in May next year.<br />
At the meeting on Monday,<br />
Linwood Ward city councillor<br />
Yani Johanson voted against the<br />
proposal and questioned potential<br />
damage to vehicles from the<br />
raised platforms.<br />
“Because the one at Lincoln<br />
[Addington] is pretty bad. People<br />
don’t expect them,” he said.<br />
There have been complaints<br />
from drivers on social media<br />
after the bottom of their vehicles<br />
were scraped by the new safety<br />
platforms at the Lincoln Rd<br />
intersection.<br />
Burwood Ward city councillor<br />
Kelly Barber was also not<br />
in favour of the raised safety<br />
platforms<br />
“Road to Zero is an admirable<br />
goal. It’s very easy to achieve if<br />
we drive everywhere at 20km/h.<br />
But I don’t think in our society, it<br />
is practical.<br />
“I think these are the sort of<br />
intersection changes that give<br />
council a bad name.”<br />
However, deputy chairperson<br />
Jackie Simons said the raised<br />
platforms are not going to damage<br />
vehicles if drivers slow down.<br />
“I actually go through the Lincoln<br />
Rd intersection every week.<br />
This is about drivers’ education.<br />
“They’ve been used all over the<br />
country. It’s new to Christchurch,<br />
it’s new to us. But they are<br />
a good system that does slow the<br />
traffic down.”<br />
There have been four serious<br />
injury crashes in the last 10 years<br />
at the Shirley intersection.<br />
City council staff has identified<br />
red light running, right turning<br />
traffic failing to give way, and<br />
right-angle crashes being the<br />
most significant crash problems.<br />
There is also a high collective<br />
and medium high personal risk at<br />
this intersection as it has a death<br />
and serious injury score of 1.86.<br />
Collective risk refers to the<br />
number of fatal and serious<br />
crashes per kilometre or within a<br />
set distance of an intersection.<br />
While personal risk refers to<br />
the likelihood of an individual<br />
being involved in a fatal or<br />
serious crashes per million<br />
vehicle kilometre travelled.<br />
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