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6 Thursday March 16 2017<br />
Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
The Star<br />
News<br />
Crusaders to<br />
raise funds<br />
for child cancer<br />
• By Noah Graham<br />
THREE CRUSADERS will swap<br />
their rugby balls for a plastic<br />
bucket on Friday to collect money<br />
for the Child Cancer Foundation.<br />
Mitch Dunshea, Leon Fukofuka<br />
and Tim Perry will be at the Eastgate<br />
Shopping Centre in Linwood<br />
from noon to 1pm to fundraise<br />
for the Child Cancer Foundation.<br />
Child Cancer Foundation business<br />
development manager Lydia<br />
Hemingway said the Crusaders<br />
were supportive of the foundation<br />
and the players had an important<br />
part in their fundraising last<br />
year.<br />
“Last year the public really engaged<br />
with the Crusaders as they<br />
roamed around the mall within<br />
the hour and they helped raise a<br />
lot of money.”<br />
The bucket collection is part of<br />
an effort by the foundation to try<br />
to raise $750,000 nationally this<br />
month which will help more than<br />
500 families, she said.<br />
Fundraising will also take place<br />
on Saturday at the mall from<br />
noon to 1pm and will continue in<br />
the evening at AMI Stadium when<br />
the Crusaders play the Blues.<br />
Plan for second worst intersection<br />
• By Tom Doudney<br />
THE INTERSECTION ranked<br />
as the city’s second most<br />
dangerous will receive a<br />
$1 million upgrade but work<br />
won’t begin until 2019 at the<br />
earliest.<br />
The intersection of Ilam Rd,<br />
Middleton Rd and Riccarton<br />
Rd was included on the list of<br />
Christchurch’s 100 most dangerous<br />
intersections, released<br />
in January ahead of the draft<br />
Annual Plan.<br />
Only the intersection of Russley<br />
Rd and Memorial Ave was<br />
ranked above it.<br />
City council head of transport<br />
Chris Gregory said the draft<br />
Annual Plan allowed for construction<br />
to take place in the<br />
2019/20 financial year. The work<br />
would take about six months.<br />
“Currently this project is in<br />
the scheme design phase,” Mr<br />
Gregory said.<br />
“A number of options are<br />
being examined that take<br />
into account safety upgrades,<br />
cycleways and the need to<br />
minimise impact on vehicle and<br />
public transport routes.”<br />
It was anticipated that<br />
community consultation would<br />
take place in the first half of<br />
DRIVE CAREFULLY: The intersection of Ilam Rd, Middleton Rd<br />
and Riccarton Rd is currently ranked as the city’s second most<br />
dangerous.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
next year.<br />
There have been 35 crashes<br />
recorded at the intersection between<br />
2011 and 2016, although<br />
not all non-injury crashes for<br />
2016 may have yet been entered<br />
in the system.<br />
The recorded crashes include<br />
29 involving vehicles only, five<br />
involving pedestrians and one<br />
involving a cyclist. Serious injuries<br />
were suffered in one crash,<br />
in 2012.<br />
Mr Gregory said the intersection’s<br />
high placing on the list<br />
was due to the combination of<br />
high reported injury crashes<br />
and its configuration.<br />
The intersection was last upgraded<br />
25 years ago when traffic<br />
lights were installed.<br />
To decide rankings on the<br />
list, the city council uses crash<br />
data from the NZ Transport<br />
Agency.<br />
However, a city council<br />
spokeswoman said the order<br />
of intersections on the list was<br />
changing as new incidents occurred.<br />
A range of other considerations<br />
were also used to<br />
determine the actual order and<br />
timing of intersection upgrades.<br />
These included predicted traffic<br />
growth from development,<br />
congestion, speed limits, minor<br />
unreported crash history, efficiency<br />
of traffic operations,<br />
pedestrian and cycling use and<br />
community input.<br />
“It’s important to understand<br />
that it’s not a simple case of<br />
taking action for intersections<br />
in the order they appear on the<br />
list,” the spokeswoman said.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Does<br />
this intersection deserve<br />
its place as the city’s<br />
second most dangerous<br />
intersection? Is 2019 soon<br />
enough for work to begin?<br />
Send your views to tom.<br />
doudney@starmedia.kiwi<br />
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