Slow road gets green light
Work has started on a new slow road to reopen New Brighton Mall to traffic after being given the green light by the City Council.
Seven years after it was first mooted, the narrow, one-way slow road, will run towards the beach on Seaview Road, between Union Street and Oram Avenue. City Council approval was granted at a Council meeting last month.
The road is one of 11 top-priority projects outlined in the wider New Brighton Revitalisation Master Plan that was released in September 2002 after an extensive consultation involving a series of public meetings and presentations to the Council, says the Council project manager for New Brighton Mall, Jeanette Ward.
Many of the revitalisation projects were running in parallel with the mall upgrade while others, due to the longer planning times needed, would take a little longer.
“Feedback from the community regarding the mall upgrade has been hugely positive,” Ms Ward says.
The existing water main was replaced and some essential services installed before contract work started on 1 August.
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