the township, and the current section of the road with a 70km an hour speed limit will also be reduced to 60km an hour. The area that is currently 50km an hour will rise to 60km. This will help match the speed limits better with the urban boundaries of the township. Following this change in speed limit a number of other improvements are being planned in the next few months. Large signs and road markings will be installed on the road and roadsides at both ends of the town. “Along with an electronic display this will help clearly signal and reinforce the drop in speed from 100km an hour to 60km. Further signs will be installed every 500 metres to reinforce the reduced speed limit,” says Brett Gliddon. A pedestrian refuge is also being built near the Italian Bakery to improve safety for pedestrians. “We know that reducing speeds and improving safety is a top priority for the Kaiwaka community and the Transport Agency believes these changes will encourage motorists to drop their speeds.” “This will create a better balance in helping freight and commuter vehicles travel safely and efficiently through Kaiwaka without compromising the safety and amenity of local residents and will help enhance and support the goals of the Kaiwaka Township Improvement Plan.” “Encouraging safer speeds and reducing deaths and serious injuries on our roads is a top priority for the Transport Agency and in many cases the consequences of a crash can be significantly reduced or even completely avoided if drivers reduce their speeds.”
"When we looked at what work needed to be done on it, the grey was a coloured texture that was applied and we discovered that we could have any colour on there. "It opened us up about thinking about what we could do with it, to make it more attractive to people - particularly as they're coming up on a steep hill there. It's a reward to get up there." The resin surface is the same as that seen on the wellknown and popular pink cycle path on Nelson Street and cost just under $40,000. "We've had really positive feedback,'' King said. "On social media, we've been watching people's comments. My favourite one was someone who took their 4-year-old daughter and how excited she was and they had to ride up and down a couple of times." King said the rainbow-coloured bike path is thought to be the only one of its kind in New Zealand and there would be moves for similar creative ideas to be carried out when it came to public infrastructure in future.
Rainbow path paves way for Auckland cyclists There is a colourful new reason to get on your bike in Auckland, with the opening of a rainbowthemed cycle path. The Rainbow Path is part of the north-western cycleway from West Auckland's Henderson to and downtown Auckland, and runs for almost 500m next to the Unitec campus in Mt Albert. Auckland Transport's Kathryn King, manager for walking and cycling and road safety, said the idea came about as that stretch of the path needed remedial works carried out on it.
"We strive to ensure with any of our new infrastructure or opportunities for maintenance of existing infrastructure, to see what we can do to make it more attractive and more exciting for people to use. "So there'll be more opportunities for us to do things like this ... where we can make our transport infrastructure pretty world-leading.''