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