Riccarton street to get traffic controls

Press, 23 May 1989, Page 8

Riccarton street to get traffic controls

The Riccarton Borough Council has decided to introduce landscaped traffic controls at the entrance to Harakeke Street from Riccarton Road. Plans will be drafted, the council decided last evening. The council has been considering , "threshold treatments," such as narrowed entrances, humps, and planting to control traffic congestion in streets in the area. The residents’ committee had previously sought a closing of the street, a move rejected by the council, and had since been pushing for street treatments to slow traffic.

Mr Murray Greig, a spokesman for the committee, said last evening’s council decision had been proposed by the council two’ years ago when debate on the issue first began. The proposal was also a “complete turnaround” from the proposal made by the council a month ago. at the works and services committee ingA proposal that council staff prepare another report on the issue was thrown out at the council meeting. The Mayor, Mr Dick Harrington, said that wou< be “just watering down the situation.”