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Changes to some dangerous local roads are being made in an attempt to reduce the number of crashes caused by vehicles losing control on bends.
Auckland Transport’s Rural Delineation Programme is partly funded by the Regional Fuel Tax and affects 64km of rural roads in the Hibiscus and Bays, Rodney and Franklin local board areas. The scheme includes parts of several Hibiscus Coast roads. These are: Spur Road, and Duck Creek Road, Stillwater; East Coast Road Silverdale/Redvale (section between 200m north of Wilks Road and 200m south of Jackson Way excluded) and Weranui Road, Waiwera, rural section (gravel section excluded).
The work will include new yellow and black signs, road markings and things such as reflectorised white solid centre lines, chevron curve indicator signs, and arrow signs to mark curves in the road.
They are designed to help drivers negotiate various road dangers – as many crashes in the selected areas were due to vehicles losing control on bends.
In the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board area there were 54 reported injury crashes from 2015 to 2019 and approximately 43 percent of them were due to loss of control.
The work was expected to begin at the end of last month.
