July 2006

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Kerb And Channel Changes

The Council’s kerb and channel renewal programme for the coming year has been reduced following a review by Land Transport NZ.

Of the projects the Council had originally planned for the year from 1 July, 29 will be completed by the end of June 2007.

The remaining projects are not proceeding even though in some cases residents have been sent preliminary letters advising them that the work in their street was in the coming year’s works programme. These projects will be re-programmed to future years.

“LTNZ’s issue was that we weren’t always deciding jobs on the state of the kerb and channel,” says Chris Kerr, the Council’s Acting Manager of Transport and City Streets. “The Council has had a policy of replacing the older-style deep channel when, in some cases, it is still in reasonable order and doing its job. LTNZ says priority must be on how well a street’s kerb and channel is performing.

“LTNZ asked for a revised programme that maintains the total network, focuses on traffic-carrying routes, has a mix of dish-and-flat-channel renewal and reduces the cost per metre of channel renewal projects.

Although the amount of kilometres of kerb and channel renewal over the next two years will be less than that spelt out in the draft version of the Council’s 2006-16 long-term community plan, the shortfall will be made up in the remaining eight years of the plan.

Will Be Done

Not Going Ahead