Resident riled by ‘pothole-riddled’ road

A resident of Hepburn Creek Road says that within a month of repairs to the semi-rural road it is once again “pothole-riddled”. Although residents are grateful that large parts of the road have been improved, says Susan Liddell, the repair work appears to have made some sections – especially around bends – more dangerous than before.

“I’m frustrated that the road wasn’t better engineered prior to doing the work,” she says.

Hepburn Creek is a no-exit road just a few minutes’ south of Warkworth. It has considerable traffic and is used by a bus servicing local schools.

An Auckland Transport spokesperson said that after the road had been “stabilised and sealed” recently, a roughly 30 metre-long section “failed because of bad weather and heavy traffic from the solid waste trucks and school buses”.

“It will soon be repaired by the contractor at no extra cost to the ratepayer.”