Planned minor improvements Planned minor improvements

Following the installation of a new crossing on Davis Crecent, we heard concerns from local businesses about the parking removal. We are planning to install 8 new parking spaces in the area to address this concern.

The existing parking zone conditions will apply to these newly created spaces.

These works are scheduled for November 2023.

We are going to paint broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) from 41 and 43 Palm Road to the Palm Beach access way.

October 2023

We’re improving the parking layout on Marine Parade South by:

• Moving the location of the mobility parking to the other side of the beach walkway where less sand reaches the carpark and is less likely to cover the road markings.
• Creating a direct route for the rescue vehicles from the Piha Surf Life Saving Club (PSLSC) to the beach.
• Replacing the current route to the beach used by the PSLSC with parking spaces.
  

These works are scheduled for October 2023.

To provide safe access to fire trucks and vehicles, we are painting broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) outside 5 and 8 Ride Way, Rosedale. The broken yellow lines will be approximately six meters (one vehicle length) as shown on the drawing. Painting broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) will ensure safe access for vehicles access.

We anticipate the works will be completed by end of November 2023.

When vehicles are parked on both sides of Ullswater Place, it can become too narrow for drivers to pass through, especially for larger vehicles like rubbish trucks or emergency service vehicles. Painting broken yellow lines along one side in a staggered manner will allow parking on one side of the road while improving road access.

September/October 2023

We’ve received requests from members of the community to address access and visibility issues caused by vehicles parked on Satchell Place.
We are painting broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) on both sides of Satchell Place. This will stop parked vehicles from blocking the road, making it safer and easier for motorists to navigate the narrow, sloping road. We are also adding angle parking lines in the parking area between the one lane bridge and Maika Lane. This will make this car park more efficient and easier for people to park here.

November 2023 to February 2024

We’ve received several requests from the community to stop parking on the berms, as it's damaging the berm, unsafe for pedestrians, and may also damage underground utilities of Wright Spur and Brentwood Avenue, Mt Eden. 

We are putting restrictions on the whole street. The drawing shows where parking will be prohibited. 

September/October 2023

We are making some changes to mobility parking at the Meadowbank Train Station.

The changes will include: 

• Repainting the car park to provide two permanent mobility parking spaces with a hatched area (yellow box with diagonal lines) in between the parks. The hatched area ensures there is enough space for wheelchair users to manoeuvre in and out of their vehicle.
• Installing a ramp from the footpath to the car park to make it easier for wheelchair users to navigate from their vehicle onto the footpath.
• Returning one temporary mobility parking space to an unrestricted parking space. 

During the construction of the Glen Innes to Tamaki Shared Path project, two mobility spaces were temporarily removed from the Ōrākei Train Station. In their place, two temporary mobility spaces were added to the Meadowbank Train Station. The two mobility spaces at the Ōrākei Train Station have now been returned and are open for public use. 

We now plan to make one of the temporary mobility spaces permanent. This increases the number of permanent mobility spaces at the Meadowbank Train Station from one to two. 

October 2023

We have been contacted by the public that when vehicles are parked on both sides of Embassy Place and Charnley Grove, it can become too narrow for traffic to pass through, especially for larger vehicles like rubbish trucks or emergency service vehicles. Painting broken yellow lines allows parking on one side of the road, while maintaining road access.

October-December 2023

Residents of Puhinui Park have requested a car share parking space within their development. We’re restricting one parking space to shared vehicles only.

• We will be installing an “Approved Shared Vehicles at All Times” sign at the parking space outside 34 Tuaiwi Street, so only shared vehicles can park there.
• A carsharing service company has guaranteed that a shared car will be available to residents once a parking space is provided.

October 2023.

Due to the large number of pedestrians moving around near the Hobson Street and Cook Street intersection, we are planning to make some changes to this intersection to make it safer and easier for pedestrians to cross. We’re planning to:

• Install a new signalised pedestrian crossing at the southern leg of the intersection across Hobson Street. The traffic lights will have a push button, which, when activated, will give pedestrians the right of way to cross. They will also have sound that will let visually impaired people hear when to cross.
• Widen the footpath on the southwest corner of the intersection.
• Realign the three other existing pedestrian crossings by repainting the road markings. This will ensure the intersection operates efficiently for all road users.
• Install tactile pavers at all road crossing points. These are yellow guidance paving markers to help visually impaired people find their way to crossings and safely across roads.
• Install new streetlights and paint new road markings to support the changes.

This work is scheduled to start in Septmeber 2023.

In response to requests from the Rodney Local Board and local community to encourage safer speeds along Point Wells Road, we plan to add some new signs and road markings. These changes include:

• Painting red ‘slow’ road markings outside number 25, 79a and 215.
• Installing new speed limit signs near number 26, 79 and 242. A ‘children crossing’ sign will also be installed outside number 242.
• Installing a driver feedback sign (electronic speed sign) outside number 252.

These changes along Point Wells Road will encourage motorists to drive at the safe, appropriate speed limit. The electronic speed sign will let motorists know how fast they are traveling and remind people to slow down if necessary.

Between June and July 2023

We are planning to install a mobility parking space in the car park at the end of Rothesay Bay Road in response to a community request.

Work in progress, to be completed September 2023.

To make it safer and easier to cycle along Cavendish Drive, we will be installing physical separation between the vehicle lanes and existing painted cycle lanes on Cavendish Drive from State Highway 20 to Lambie Drive. The separators will be 300mm wide, 120mm high raised concrete islands positioned on the existing cycle lane white line. Gaps will be left for existing property accesses and side road intersections. We will not make any changes to access or parking. These changes will improve the safety and the experience for cyclists on Cavendish Drive by creating a physical barrier between motor vehicles and people on bikes. ​

In response to a request from the Aotea / Great Barrier Local Board, we are planning to install clearway on and off roadway signs on Hector Sanderson Road, Great Barrier Island to prevent stopping and parking on the berm (the grass strip next to the road).

People will not be allowed to stop or park on the berm at all times in the following areas:

• From the Claris Aerodrome entrance to number 59 along the northern side of the road.
• From the Great Barrier Library and Council offices to number 67 along the southern side of the road.

We are also working alongside Auckland Council to stabilise the berm along the northern side of Hector Sanderson Road.

These changes will improve safety for pedestrians and road users:

• When there are vehicles parked in these locations, it can make the road unsafe for people walking along the northern side of the road and block visibility for motorists travelling along this corner.
• Stabilising the berm on the northern side of the road will make it more comfortable for people walking here.

• Installing driver feedback signs on Monument Road on both sides leading up to the intersection. These are electronic signs that alert drivers to their speed and encourage them to slow down.
• Installing ‘STOP’ and ‘STOP AHEAD’ signs on Tourist Road.
• Updating road markings and signage to reflect these changes.

• Upgrading the existing roundabout to a mountable roundabout. This is a roundabout that allows drivers, especially those in large vehicles like buses and emergency service vehicles, to drive over the edges easily.
• Improving the footpath and planting new grass berms on the left-hand turn from Porchester Road into Manuroa Road.
• Painting new road markings to support the changes.

• Convert the six angle parking spaces outside 14 and 18 Anglesea Street to two parallel parking spaces.
• Install broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) outside 16 Anglesea Street, as it is too small to become a parallel parking space.

• Restrict the reserved yellow marked out area at the Sandspit Wharf to emergency vehicle parking only. A sign will be installed to let people know that only emergency service vehicles can park there.
• Remove the loading zone road marking at the Sandspit Wharf, as this road marking conflicts with the other parking restrictions in the area.

• Convert two P120 parking spaces to P30 outside 2B Hall Street to improve parking availability for visitors to the nearby businesses.
• Install two new mobility parking spaces with a P180 time restriction at 104 King Street and 220 King Street.
• Introduce a P180 time restriction to two of the existing mobility parking spaces at 159 and 201 King Street. This time limit will make it easier for more people to find parking.
• Convert three P60 parking spaces to P30 outside 177 King Street.  The time restrictions will increase the number of short-term parking spaces.
• Move one parallel mobility parking space from 124 King Street to an angled mobility parking with a P180 restriction at 131 King Street to make it safer for people getting in and out of their vehicles.
• Convert the parallel mobility parking space at 124 King Street to P60 time restriction.

• Paint broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) along the head of the cul-de-sac. We understand the removal of parking can be inconvenient, so we have minimised it to four parking spaces while still improving access on Boyd Avenue for large vehicles.

• Construct a 1.8m wide concrete footpath on the western side of Goodall Road, from the intersection of Mahurangi East Road to Horizon School. This footpath will be approximately 54m long.
• Remove six trees, one on Mahurangi East Road, and five at the top of Goodall Road in order to make space for the footpath and boardwalk. We will replace these with eight new trees planted further down Goodall Road.
• Install a boardwalk on Mahurangi East Road connecting the entrance of Horizon School with the new footpath on Goodall Road.

• Paint broken yellow lines from 60 Victoria Street to the front of the Fabric apartment complex at 64 to 74 Victoria Street. This will remove a total of three legal parking spaces.

• Install a 1.8m wide concrete footpath on the southern side of Albert Street from Seatoun Avenue to the walkway between the tennis court and 15 Albert Street. The length of this proposed footpath is approximately 148m.

• Kain Street and Landscape Road Intersection.
• Waitomo Avenue and Landscape Road Intersection.
• Outside 159 Landscape Road.
• Outside 3 Kain Street.

• Install a new mobility parking space with a P180 time restriction at 48 King Street.
• Introduce a P180 time restriction to existing mobility parking spaces at 15 and 80 King Street.
• Convert the time restricted parking spaces at 48 and 35 Edinburgh Street to P30 time restricted parking spaces​.

• Construct an 84m footpath outside 20 Accent Drive to connect the existing footpaths together.
• Install a short section of retaining wall.

In November 2022, we informed the community about our plan to provide a safe and continuous footpath along Bush Road in Albany. We advised you that these works were scheduled to be constructed in August 2023. Due to finalising the design and issues caused by the February flooding, the work was delayed.

Next steps

This project is now scheduled to be done between June 2024 and June 2025.

• Paint broken yellow lines along the western kerb between 21 and 31 Kyle Road. This will remove 8 parking spaces.

• Install stop controls at the intersection of Arimu Road and Old Wairoa Road. This includes a stop sign, ‘stop’ road marking, new stop line, and new centre line.
• Install stop controls at the intersection of View Road and Old Wairoa Road.
• Paint broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) at the intersection of Arimu Road and View Road along Old Wairoa Road. This would result in the removal of approximately 10 on-street parking spaces.

• Slow motorists to a safer speed
• Correct the lack of road markings
• Improve visibility for people travelling through these intersections.

• Reconstruct the footpath at the intersection and install raised footpath markers.
• Install a kerb ramp with side islands at the intersection. A kerb ramp is a sloped section of footpath which makes it easier to move from the road to the footpath.
• Install a new traffic island and kerb lines on Robb Street.
• Paint a slow sign on top of red coloured surfacing on Robb Street.
• Paint new broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) on Clevedon Road.

In September 2022 we sent a letter to the community on our proposal to paint broken yellow lines (no stopping at all times) at the end of Valley Road, outside of properties #12, #14 and #3 to improve access for Northland Waste Limited rubbish trucks turning around at the end of Valley Road.

• Paint broken yellow lines around the Glenbush Place cul-de-sac, outside of properties 3 to 8. Parking around a cul-de-sac is not allowed if vehicles obstruct safe access for emergency services.
• Remove existing yellow road markings around the cul-de-sac. These yellow road markings have been illegally painted and will be removed when we paint broken yellow lines.

• Matua Road, Huapai
• Tapu Road, Huapai
• Alice Street, Riverhead
• Cambridge Road, Riverhead
• Duke Street, Riverhead
• King Street, Riverhead
• Princes Street, Riverhead
• George Street, Riverhead
• Queen Street, Riverhead
• York Terrace, Riverhead.

• Updated Riverhead proposal drawing (PDF 606KB)
• Huapai footpaths drawings (PDF 636KB)
• Riverhead external drawings (PDF 5.1MB)

• Paint 6 metres of broken yellow lines from the driveway of 181 Rangatira Road to 2 Taurus Crescent. This will remove at least four parking spaces. The removal of parking spaces will have a minimal impact, as there will be sufficient parking on the road for residents to utilise.

• Installing kerb ramps outside 318 Hampton Drive and 324 Kohimarama Road. These ramps allow prams, wheelchairs, and mobility scooters to transition smoothly from the footpath to the road.
• Installing tactile pavers, which are yellow guidance paving markers that help visually impaired people to find their way to the crossing and safely cross the road.
• Creating a new footpath with a gentle slope outside 318 Hampton Drive and paint broken yellow lines (not stopping at all times) on the northern corner of Hampton Drive and Kohimarama Road, which will result in the removal of three parking spaces.