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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>November</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong><br />
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NEWS<br />
• From page 1<br />
City council traffic data shows<br />
the average daily traffic in its<br />
most recent July count to be<br />
24,741 vehicles. <strong>The</strong> current speed<br />
limit for the area is 50km/h.<br />
St Albans resident John Allen<br />
has raised his concerns about<br />
the 2017 audit to the community<br />
board.<br />
“If I were you I would be reducing<br />
the road to 40k until you sort<br />
this data out because it could<br />
result in the death of a cyclist,”<br />
Allen said.<br />
Board member Pauline Cotter<br />
said the audit Allen was<br />
concerned about was four years<br />
old, and the situation may have<br />
changed.<br />
“We’ve asked staff for information<br />
on the most recent safety<br />
audit.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> board was open to taking<br />
action, including by introducing<br />
a speed limit change if it was<br />
recommended, she said.<br />
An update on the situation was<br />
expected at the next board meeting<br />
in two weeks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2017 audit stated while the<br />
probability of a crash occurring<br />
was assessed as “occasional”, the<br />
likelihood of a crash being serious<br />
or fatal was “very likely” due<br />
to narrow road and cycle lanes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> audit recommended the<br />
width of the median island be<br />
reduced from 1.8m to 1.2m, “to<br />
increase the width available for<br />
cyclists and traffic”.<br />
However, the audit also noted<br />
a median of 1.8m was a consent<br />
condition of the project and<br />
that recommendations were not<br />
prescriptive.<br />
“Bottom line, council staff<br />
knowingly applied for a resource<br />
consent with a road that is<br />
unsafe in its design. It’s not wide<br />
enough,” Allen said.<br />
City council head of transport<br />
Lynette Ellis said the width of the<br />
median was needed to provide<br />
space for people to cross the road.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> cycle lane is narrower<br />
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‘It’s the most deficient road’<br />
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CONCERNED:<br />
John Allen has<br />
spoken to the<br />
Papanui-Innes<br />
Community<br />
Board about<br />
road safety on<br />
Cranford St.<br />
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than we would generally provide,<br />
however, it is a compromise with<br />
the available space,” Ellis said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council expected most<br />
cyclists in the area would use<br />
alternative cycleways.<br />
Allen said roads should be<br />
safe for all users and this was a<br />
cop-out.<br />
Transport engineer Axel<br />
Downard-Wilke agreed the<br />
stretch of road was dangerously<br />
narrow.<br />
“It’s the most deficient road<br />
in Christchurch from a safety<br />
perspective,” Downard-Wilke<br />
said.<br />
He did not think reducing or<br />
eliminating the median strip was<br />
the answer, as this served a useful<br />
safety function, but suggested<br />
one of the road’s four lanes could<br />
be removed instead.<br />
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JAB: Getting vaccinated will be imperative to getting out<br />
and about.<br />
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Holiday logistics<br />
in planning stage<br />
• From page 1<br />
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern<br />
said the Government was still<br />
working through the logistics of<br />
enabling Aucklanders to leave the<br />
city and visit friends and family<br />
for Christmas and over summer<br />
- but it would only apply to those<br />
who were double jabbed or had<br />
returned a negative Covid<br />
test.<br />
“If anyone wants to make sure<br />
they are able to leave over the<br />
summer that’s another reason to<br />
get vaccinated,” she said.<br />
Ardern added the issue letting<br />
vaccinated Aucklanders leave<br />
wasn’t so much other regions<br />
reaching the 90 per cent target,<br />
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manage 30,000 cars at a time trying<br />
to leave while checking they<br />
had returned a vaccine certificate<br />
and produced a negative Covid<br />
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While Auckland’s hard border<br />
did not feature long-term in<br />
the Government’s new traffic<br />
light system, Ardern revealed<br />
it did currently play a part in<br />
preventing the spread of Covid<br />
while other areas increased their<br />
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Areas such as Northland,<br />
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