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Rachael Kelly/Stuff The Gore District Council has installed a pocket park at the end of Eccles Street at the intersection with State Highway 1, which has prompted concerns about ambulances travelling to Gore Hospital, which is further down the street. The Gore District Council has received a petition asking for the removal of some of its Streets Alive initiatives, including more than 460 concrete troughs, from the towns streets. And the results of a survey commissioned by the council about the...

Thats the whole idea. The fund allows councils to trial new traffic layouts, before spending big money to make them permanent. Waka Kotahi urban mobility manager Kathryn King said the Innovative Streets programme aimed to make it faster and easier to transition streets to safer and more liveable spaces, using a technique called tactical urbanism, which allowed faster delivery of ‘people-friendly’ street changes in urban areas where space is a premium. “There are over 60 Innovating Stre...

Supplied A courtesy crossing will be added to Broughton St as part of the Gore District Councils Streets Alive programme. It will be the biggest change to Gore’s streets since the infamous centre parks were removed from Main St. More than 400 planters, pocket parks and a ‘jellybean roundabout’ will transform the streets of Gore this month as the Gore District Council rolls out it’s ‘Streets Alive’ project. Throughout March a series of initiatives designed to make Gore’s streets ...

Artists adding a touch of kiwiana to the town included Flox, Kell Sunshine and Ikarus. Street art was gaining in popularity and places like Dunedin had a street art trail, with some murals painted by internationally-acclaimed artists. Bluff’s street art, however, was all created by New Zealand artists, he said. “It’s all 100 per cent kiwi made, which is pretty cool – kiwi murals by Kiwis.’’ The biggest being painted this week was 40 metres long by eight metres wide, he said. D...

However, the yellow bin is for glass. The council stopped recycling after June 2020, saying at the time there were no overseas markets for plastic and mixed paper, and to stockpile them above ground was not desirable from an environmental perspective. The council elected not to renew its recycling processing contract with SdE. Standring says in the report the final payment was $23,757. Robyn Edie/Stuff Gore District mayor Tracy Hicks, whose council stopped recycling in mid-2020. The council...

Roading contractors work on Block Road, near Waikaia, on Friday morning. Road damage because of flooding in the past week is estimated to cost the Southland District Council about $300,000 to repair. Contractors have been working to repair damage after heavy rainfall in the headwaters of the Mataura and Waikaia Rivers caused them to burst their banks on Sunday, and further rainfall caused another flood in the Waikaia catchment on Tuesday night. While most roads had reopened, there was precaut...

“We are looking at trialling adjustments to a few key roads to calm traffic and improve safety for everyone.” “On some roads we will look to make crossing the traffic safer by introducing pavement marking and planters to narrow the travelling carriageway. This will not only reduce the crossing distance for pedestrians and cyclists but also lower the average traffic speeds. “We’ll also be organising more creative interventions such as street art, a play trial area and pocket parks ...

Friday, 18 December, 2020 - 13:24 Work to finalise the Streets Alive trials - initiatives aimed at making Gore’s streets safer, more accessible for everyone and the town more people-friendly - is continuing apace behind the scenes. Gore district Roading Asset Manager and Project Lead Peter Standring said the team has been working really hard to line up projects across the town. "We are looking at trialling adjustments to a few key roads to calm traffic and improve safety for everyone." ...