Feedback sought on safety changes

On-road trials of a series of street, footpath and lane improvements in Wainuiomata began today, 10 May.

Part of the Maru – Streets for People project, the improvements aim to make it safer for people to walk, scooter, bike, push a pram or pushchair and ride a mobility scooter.

Final installation of a series of improvements is scheduled to be completed by tomorrow, 11 May.

The changes include making safer road crossings for tamariki on their journeys to school, replacing the metal barriers on lanes with planter boxes and adding kerb ramps to improve access for people with scooters, prams and pushchairs, bikes and mobility scooters.

Hutt City Council will have people conducting surveys at three sites and will be available to hear what people think of the trial changes.

The people will be conducting these surveys until 17 May between 2pm and 4pm most days until 17 May. The two days they will not be there will be tomorrow, 11 May and Saturday 13 May. They will be at: Rata Street; and Totara Streets.

A number of the other improvements are part of the Maru –Streets for People project.

Seating will be placed in the green spaces off the laneways, giving people places where they can stop and rest.

New artwork, signage and wayfinding is also appearing in the laneways.

The council is using temporary materials for a week-long on-road trial that will reduce speeds to 30km/hr and tighten up intersections to reduce turning speed. The council is also improving existing and likely road crossings.

Wainuiomata Rural Community Association Inc 2023 AGM

You are invited to our 2023 AGM. Come and join us and have your say.

When: Saturday 27th May 2023

Venue: WCHUB Room 3 (Next to Wainuiomata Library)

Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Tea and biscuits will be provided.

Raised courtesy crossings will be installed on Totara Street at the start of the paved laneway, and on Hinau Grove at the end of its laneway.

The road will also be narrowed at existing pedestrian crossing on Rata Street in front of St Claudine Thevenet School.

To reduce turning speeds and shorten the distance pedestrians need to cross on the road the council will be tightening the

AGM followed by talk:

‘The Early Development of the Catchpool Valley’, Ivan Morrison Saturday 20 May 2023, 1.30pm

Wainuiomata Historical Museum Society Museum, Main Rd, Wanuiomata

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Do cashew nuts come from a fruit?

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The other is through an online survey which is at https://hutt. city/MaruSurvey or via https:// hutt.city/wainuistreets.

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