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School uncertain about the impact of closing Winters Rd By Andrew King A SECTION of Winters Rd will be permanently shut to vehicles to make way for the Christchurch Northern Corridor bringing positive and negative effects for a primary school. The project will be a four-lane highway running from Chaneys Cnr to Cranford St. It aims to ease congestion in the north of the city and is expected to be completed by 2020. From February 7, the road in Mairehau, between property numbers 137 and 143, will be closed. Papanui Primary School is on the corner of Fraser and Cranford Sts. Principal Paul Kingston (above) said there are positive and negative effects to the closure. He said there will be more vehicles using the Fraser and Cranford Sts intersection outside the school and it limits access options for staff, parents and pupils. “But on the upside, there will be reduced ‘through’ traffic which often speed,” he said. “We’ll have to wait and see
CLOSING: The red circle in the photo shows where Winters Rd will close. A tunnel will be constructed underneath the motorway for pedestrians and cyclists. PHOTO: CNC ALLIANCE
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the wider community. A tunnel will be constructed to allow pedestrians and cyclists
to pass under the motorway and is expected to be completed within six months. The Northern Corridor project includes the construction of a new road between QE II Dr and Cranford St, and the four-laning of Cranford St to Innes Rd. The new motorway will bring an estimated 20,000 extra vehicles a day into St Albans once finished. The city council will put together a team to come up with a downstream effects management plan to identify the traffic issues on surrounding residential streets. The team would then come up with strategies to mitigate those effects, which would go out for public consultation. Traffic congestion would become “increasingly severe” in Main North Rd, Cranford St and Marshland Rd if the new road was not built, the city council said.