Traffic update for this week, ending 6 Sept and next
SCIRT traffic update for this week, ending 6 September 2013 and next, starting 9 September
Major bridge closure NEXT
WEEKEND, 13-15 September:
Opawa’s Heathcote
bridge on Brougham St will be closed to all traffic 6pm
Friday to 6 am Monday. Read our web story for details:
http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/article/heathcote-river-opawaho-highway-bridge-final-repairs-involve-weekend-closures
For
all central city routes check this map, updated
weekly:
http://www.transportforchristchurch.govt.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Available-Routes-Map2.pdf
•
Colombo St south of Bealey reopened to two-way traffic this
week.
• From Monday, 9 September, Madras St
south of Bealey Ave will lose a lane for up to three
months.
• Salisbury St east of Madras St will
be just two lanes wide from 9 September for a month.
•
Wastewater work on Victoria St and Park Terrace should be
completed by 13 September.
• Manchester St,
Peterborough to Kilmore, just one lane for southbound
traffic only, northbound diversion in place until mid
October. Manhole and gravity wastewater work.
•
Colombo St/ Salisbury intersection – lane closures for
manhole installation from around 12 September for two
months.
• Cambridge Terrace/ Durham St North
reduced to one lane with turning restrictions at Armagh St.
Finishing early October.
• Cambridge Terrace,
Montreal to Hereford, one-way system starting around 12
September until early November.
• Cranmer
Square West – road closure for a month, Chester St West to
Kilmore St, near Cathedral Grammar School.
•
Carlton Mill Road and Bealey Ave adjoining, work started
early September – pedestrian detour and footpath closures
but two lanes of traffic maintained. May be completed early
next week (9 September).
The central city view
forward:
Maps which show SCIRT work upcoming in
the central city, month to month and peak month March 2014,
are at the bottom of this story on today’s Press
website:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/transport/9132274/Road-repairs-ramping-up-to-unprecedented-level
Outside
the Four Avenues
• Brighton’s Bower
Ave and New Brighton Road intersection, reopened today 6
September.
• In Aranui, work on Pages Road has
increased this week with SCIRT’s City Care team working
around the entrance to Shuttle Drive, between Nga Hau e Wha
marae and Cuthberts Green. Two-way traffic is being
maintained. McConnell Dowell is already working on the
streets off Pages Road and a pump station is being
constructed on Bexley Reserve to the east.
• In
Wainoni, on Wainoni Road, past the Pak’n Save supermarket,
McConnell Dowell will be working along the middle of the
road from next week, 9 September. Two-way traffic will be
maintained and access to the supermarket not
affected.
• At North Beach’s Frosts Road/
Travis Road roundabout, Frosts Road, at the side of the QEII
site, remains one way north only.
• In
Shirley, North Parade was reopened to two-way traffic this
week.
• In Shirley, Banks Ave is closed between
McBratneys and Coopers Road.
• Northern St
Albans has intersection closures in the Esperance St/
McFaddens Road area around 11 September. Weston Road/
Knowles St intersection should reopen the same time.
•
Shirley, New Brighton Road near the Palms, Marshland Road to
Cresswell Ave, two way traffic maintained with traffic
management in place. Trench along north side of road.
Please take care and slow down.
SCIRT thanks everyone for slowing around work sites, taking care where there are cyclists and pedestrians and making an extra effort to support your local and city businesses – parking and walking an extra distance, planning ahead.
ENDS