NZ Transport Agency staff are scheduled to speak to Tauranga City Councillors today about underpass options for Welcome Bay.
The request for the meeting came out of the council's Ten Year Plan meeting on Thursday when Welcome Bay Ward Councillor Bill Grainger raised concerns about NZTA's preferred option for the Welcome Bay underpass.
He says the option for an underpass with new traffic lights on the Welcome Bay side of State Highway 29 doesn't improve access for Ohauiti drivers who will simply continue to use the Welcome Bay roundabout in preference.
He wants NZTA to re-examine the roundabout options for the underpass.
He says a roundabout on the Welcome Bay side of the underpass will encourage use of the underpass by Ohauiti drivers, if they are able to turn right into Welcome Bay Road, and help keep the highway clear of crossing suburban traffic.
His comments were made during the city council's feedback to NZTA on its announced preference for an underpass at the Te Maunga roundabout for Welcome Bay traffic.
NZTA's reply is expected today.
NZTA's website shows a roundabout version as the preferred option.
7 comments
THE ROUND ABOUT HAS IT
Posted on 09-09-2011 12:48 | By PLONKER
Of course, logical that Ohauiti traffic exiting be able to turn right, that would actually fit in with the desire to reduce the SH29 traffic cross-over, why not just conform to the stated plan.
WHAT's A COUPLE A HOUSES FOR PROGRESS
Posted on 10-09-2011 10:09 | By ANNA KISSED
Get on with it!
UNEQUAL TUNNELS
Posted on 10-09-2011 19:29 | By WORMTONGUE
Would say that has everything to do with the angle of entry and the duration of the trip undertaken. NZTA will have to be careful not to put to much angle on it and so encourage to much speed of delivery at the other end.
DOUBLESPEAK
Posted on 11-09-2011 09:15 | By KAMIKAZE
This continual prevaricating by NZTA and throwing up red herrings is nauseating. It reeks of an attempt to perpetuate the odds and sods cushy jobs.Surely there is a preferred option and reasons for that selection.Nothing has really changed since 1980 as far as tunnel goes.
NZTA are lying conniving mongrels
Posted on 12-09-2011 00:28 | By Demandthetruth
NZTA are lying conniving mongrels They have no human empathy or anything else human. They have no integrity, honesty or social conscience- believe you me. I have just been thru the wringer with these dastardly, conniving baskards. I had my property on SH2, between the motorway & Bethlehem roundabout, under contract last October 2010, awaiting due diligence. NZTA let it be known publicly that they were going to widen the road & came to me informing me of what they were going to do. My first contract disappeared. NZTA confirmed they probably wanted the property & would let me know. My second contract had to go as well & NZTA wrote confirming they were going to negotiate the purchase. We waited & waited & followed up and always delays. Then 9 months later in the end of August they informed me they no longer were going to buy my property. In a meeting with them last Friday 10 sept they 'washed their hands” and said ' we have operated by the rules of Public Works Act”. They do not recognise any fault. They have shafted me, destroyed my life, probably leading to my bankruptcy & they do not give a sh.t!!!!!!!!! I am 71 years of age so where can I go, instead of having cash in my pocket for my wife & I - I face bankruptcy. May you fester in hell NZTA bureaucrats. So please anybody who may have to deal with them DO NOT TRUST THEM ¼ mm. They have been tutored by Machiavelli and the Devil
ASK THE AUSSIES
Posted on 14-09-2011 16:42 | By WARTS N ALL
The cricketers of course!
BOLLOCKS to NZTA
Posted on 14-09-2011 21:37 | By MINDER
As usual these congenital NZTA village idiots are over thinking the whole scenario.Just stick with the original knitting chaps and throw in the fancy stitches later. QED
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