SCIRT traffic update from 28 June 2013, mostly starting first week July

SCIRT traffic update, 28 June 2013

First the good news:

Birmingham Drive, Middleton, opens back up to two way traffic from 28 June after five months one-way.

This should relieve much of the traffic pressure on Blenheim Road, Lunns Road and Hanson’s Lane. Traffic managers will continue to help at the Lunns Road/ Annex Road/ railway line intersection early next week (1 and 2 July) while drivers get back to using Birmingham Drive westbound. There is still work being done on Wrights Road and Matipo Street. SCIRT will continue to keep you updated. Thanks to the business people in this area and road users for their ongoing patience and understanding while this new wastewater pipe is installed.

Ongoing and new work on and within the Four Avenues

Fitzgerald Ave, north, Whitmore St and Bealey Ave – lane restrictions from Whitmore St/ Hills Road and Bealey Ave onto Fitzgerald Ave from Monday 1 July. Barbadoes St, Stanmore Road are alternative routes south. This will create delays.

Montreal St, from Tuam St north – one lane to Cranmer Square to the end of July.

Montreal St/ Armagh St manhole installation - this will reduce turning choices around Cranmer Square for the next month. The tram tracks along Armagh St are a complicating factor. Drivers on Armagh St coming from Hagley Park will have to go north around Cranmer Square. The way onto Armagh St east of Cranmer Square (towards Durham St) is via Montreal Street.

Works notice: http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/work/activity/3118

Montreal and Cashel Streets intersection – this work by SCIRT delivery team Fletcher, installing a manhole, is now likely to take until mid July, due to weather delays and other underground issues. Adjoining work on Montreal south to Cambridge Terrace/ the river will take until the end of August. http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/work/activity/3185

Madras St from Kilmore St to the Salisbury intersection – one lane to mid August. Madras St, part of the city’s one-way system, will be reduced to one lane from Kilmore Street to the Salisbury intersection from Monday, 1 July. SCIRT delivery team Fletcher is installing a manhole in the intersection. The road will remain one-lane for two months through these two blocks.

http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/work/activity/3171

Fitzgerald Ave, south, both sides of the road – two lanes out of action on the northbound side, north of Ferry Road and across the St Asaph Street intersection. On the southbound route, Tuam to St Asaph, one lane removed.

Colombo / Manchester cross over – in a fortnight

Colombo St, south of Bealey Avenue, north of Salisbury St - from 15 July, this will be one-way, north only. Detour along Bealey Ave, Durham and Salisbury. This work will follow the completion of the Manchester St work currently one-way north only into Bealey Ave.

OUTSIDE THE FOUR AVENUES

Aranui: Pages Road closed to through traffic for a fortnight, Portchester St to Rowan Avenue, detour via Carisbrooke St. Truck drivers should take Breezes and Wainoni Roads or Anzac Drive.

Bromley/ South Brighton: Dyers Road/ Bridge St roundabout - kerb/ traffic island repairs for a month.

Shirley - Hills Road between Warden St and Edgeware Road: Wastewater pipe work along the middle of the road so please take care, slow down, sides of road patch repaired.

Wilsons Road, St Martin - expect delays on Wilsons Road, St Martins, for the next four weeks. SCIRT delivery team City Care is stabilising the road in stages between Cresselly Place and Koromiko Street. Stop/go manual systems will be in place so please take care.

Update on McCormacks Bay Road, detour repairs Sunday night 30 June

On Sunday 30 June, 2013, overnight from 7.00pm to 6.00am Monday 1 July, the Fulton Hogan crew will be carrying out improvements to the surface of the road shoulder along McCormacks Bay Road. This work was planned for a fortnight ago but was postponed due to rain. There will be increased noise, flashing lights, and construction traffic on McCormacks Bay Road.

Keeping McCormacks Bay Road in reasonable condition is a challenge given the recent bad weather and the adjoining soft marshy lands around the Avon-Heathcote estuary/ Ihutai. Road repair work has to happen in dry weather, so extended days of rain will extend the damage also.

Drivers have a part to play in ensuring the road does not become quickly potholed– ie by slowing down, particularly in wet weather, driving to the conditions and reducing the damage to the road surface.

On the causeway work itself, Fulton Hogan is making good progress. The latest works notice has photos of things you can’t see from the detour route. http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/work/activity/3186

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