Roading/Streets
Reported Tuesday, 5 February 2019 at 7:33 pm, Northwood Boulevard, Northwood, 8051, Canterbury.
The reporter’s words
We all know that a roundabout is an effective solution for traffic with even flow from all directions. We also all know that they fail when there is heavy flow from one direction. This is the case at the Johns Rd/Sawyers Arms Rd roundabout. During busy periods, it is the major bottleneck for Johns Rd. All the money spent on upgrading Johns Rd seems undone every morning and evening by queues and backlogs at the Sawyers Arms roundabout. I’d like to make a suggestion. Your roading designers have created an excellent feature with the new on-ramp S, like at Wilkinson’s Rd. Can we do the same thing from Sawyers Arms Rd turning left onto Johns Rd. This would allow those turning left to move freely, while leaving a much shorter queue at the roundabout for those turning right. As always, having multiple lanes leading into an intersection ensures that people heading one way are not being held back by those waiting to go somewhere else. There is certainly available land on the left of Sawyers Arms heading from the city onto Johns Rd to create a separate merge lane towards the airport. Does this make sense? Brian Spensley
The filing
- Filed
- Tuesday, 5 February 2019 at 7:33 pm
- Report number
- #613,078
- Filed under
- roads
- Coordinates
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The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Potholes4 m away · resolved 16 Aug 2023, took 45 hours
- Remove Dead Animal4 m away · resolved 28 Aug 2026, took 7 days
- Garden (Road)8 m away · resolved 11 Nov 2020, took 6 weeks
- Blockage/Water Not Draining11 m away · resolved 8 May 2023, took 7 weeks
- Flooding11 m away · resolved 1 May 2025, took 28 min
- Litter (Road)12 m away · resolved 15 Jul 2022, took 26 hours
- Pothole (Road)12 m away · resolved 2 May 2019, took 3 months
- Blockage/Water Not Draining13 m away · resolved 17 Oct 2023, took 19 months
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Where this sits
The pin20 Baltic Placelands 5 m from this filed address, its whole recordThe streetBaltic Placethe street the pin lands nearest, its record, every report on itThe suburbNorthwoodthe suburb, in depthThe problemRoading/Streetsevery filing of its kind on the city’s booksThe date5 Februarythis date in the archive, across the yearsThe year2019the year’s shelf and ledgerThe mapOn the mapthe pin, among its neighboursBeforeWhat stood herewhat the archive knows of this ground
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