Essential road maintenance identified

Pot hole repairs continue to be an essential service during the Covid-19 lockdown, although routine work such as footpath renewals, road re-surfacing and new road building are on hold.

Auckland Transport says the following activities have been classed as essential services:

  • Pothole repairs
  • Road side drain and intersection sweeping
  • Clearing of critical catchpit grates which are located in areas prone to flooding during moderate to heavy rainfall
  • Maintenance of regulatory and safety signage
  • Unsealed road maintenance (grading and re-metalling as required)
  • Monitoring and maintenance of construction sites that have been closed under Alert Level 4
  • Responding to crashes, spillages, fallen tree branches, slips and providing temporary traffic management as required
  • Maintenance of road markings, intersection markings and edge marker posts for safety reasons
  • Clearing of trees and other vegetation to maintain sight lines
  • Maintenance of drains on our unsealed road network
  • Streetlight maintenance ( replacement of faulty luminaires) and other similar faults where the lights are out. Also making light poles safe after car crashes
  • All traffic signal faults will be attended to as normal