Bid to ease market day congestion

Road and parking markings on the main road into Matakana are due to be altered this month in a bid to ease weekend traffic congestion, according to Matakana Community Group chair Simon Barclay.

He told the group’s quarterly meeting on March 3 that the centre line would be shifted over and some parking spaces lost on the stretch between Maeha Drive and the pedestrian crossing.

Barclay added that while it wasn’t quite the full right-hand turn lane into the carpark next to the school that the group had lobbied for, Auckland Transport was going to try this new alignment to see if it improved matters.