Safety arrow signs installed West Coast highways
ready for summer
Richard Hawes, carpenter for
Westreef, installing one of 200 arrow signs on the Coast
Road near Punakaiki, SH6.
As part of its annual safety
work programme, the NZ Transport Agency’s West Coast
contracting teams have been installing more than 600 new
roadside arrow signs along the Coast’s state highways
ready for the busy summer season ahead.
“The primary
reason for these signs is to increase drivers’ awareness
of a bend or curve in the road and the need to lower speeds
as they are approaching and travelling around corners or
curved sections of highway,” says Jim Harland, Transport
Agency Southern Regional Director.
The cost of this work,
covering around 50 km of highway, is around $147,000.
Five
areas of West Coast highway are getting the new gold on
black background arrow signs in time for this
summer:
State Highway 6
• Fox River to
Punakaiki on the Great Coast Road – more than 200 signs,
16.5 km in total.
• Fox Glacier to Haast, South
Westland, in two stages. Fox Glacier to Ohinetamatea Bridge
– 39 signs installed in August covering nearly 11
km.
• Fox Glacier to Haast from Whakapohai River
Bridge to Cole Creek Bridge – Manakaiaua Hills (Knights
Point area) – 117 signs covering 8 km, to be completed by
the end of September.
• Franz Josef to Fox
Glacier – 166 signs covering 8.5 km are being installed to
the end of September between Kiwi Jack’s Bridge to
Waikukupa River Bridge (first half of the Fox
Hills).
State Highway 7
• Stillwater –
Dobson, 75 signs covering 5 km of this key route east out of
Greymouth will be installed by the end of
September.
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