By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:25:45 +0000

In reply to David.

Hi David,

A cul de sac for Barrie St sounds like a great example for this fund- it would only need a concrete planter box or similar and you’re right there is no justification for that street to have direct access to a main arterial. Have you suggested it to the local councillor?
Melanie.coker@ccc.govt.nz

By: David

David — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:34:29 +0000

I’ve noticed cars rat running in Addington around the intersection of Antigua and Brougham streets. The entrances from Antigua to streets like Burke and Ruskin have some traffic calming but even so in the evening cars roar through the protected cycleway then along Ruskin Street and around the Barrie Street corner to sneak onto Brougham Street without waiting for the phase change at Antigua/Brougham Streets. It seems to me that all the intersections with Antigua street should have proper raised footpaths across the local street entrances. A slow 25 kph speed should be set to create a safe low speed neighbourhood. And I can’t see the need for such local streets to open onto Brougham at all. Barrie Street for instance should be a cul de sac for cars just as Kipling Street is already. This is just one example. But major distributors could easily be separated from local streets more effectively to prevent high speed rat running like this – a low cost high return investment ideal for shovel ready action.

Perhaps there should be a webpage where proposals to raise footpaths, and create such separations could be compiled. This would develop a database of interventions that could attract funding to readily provide immediate benefit.

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