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The shortfall would mean some bridges would likely need to close in the short-to-medium term and for longer, and some roads would require long-term speed restrictions to manage deterioration as the work to maintain the roads and bridges to the standard they were now would be spread out longer, Tong said. “Waka Kotahi provides 52 per cent of our roading budget, and we were informed last week it would fund only 85 per cent of what we requested – $15 million less to work on our bridges and roading over the next three years. That means to do the same amount of work council would need to fin...

Rachael Kelly/Stuff The Gore District Council has spent $18,000 on fairy lights, which are being put up in the town before the Tussock Country Music Festival begins on Saturday. The Gore District Council has spent $18,000 on fairy lights for the town’s central business area. They will be up in time for the inaugural Tussock Country Music Festival, which begins on Saturday, but Gore district roading asset manager Peter Standring said the lights would become a permanent fixture. During the next week about 700m high quality icicle fairy lights will be put up on both sides of the Main St, bet...

He could not say how many planters would be removed, but they would be gone before the end of the week, he said. The council has repeatedly asked for vandalism of the concrete troughs, which are being used as planters, to stop. The planters are part of a three-month trial of its Streets Alive project, which has changed some layouts for traffic around the town, by adding pocket parks, planters, roundabouts and courtesy crossings. The $1 million trial is mainly funded by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency's Innovative Streets fund, and it aims to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety, and redu...

Six weeks - that's how long Gore District Council has left to make peace with residents upset over a roading project trial in their Southland town. Gore District Council roading asset manager Peter Standring squats next to a vandalised planter box. Photo: LDR / Sandy Eggleston Discontent has bubbled over following the rollout of a Streets Alive project two months ago. Street calming planter boxes have been repeatedly vandalised, more than 1000 people have signed a petition and a council meeting this week burst at the seams with vocal locals. The nearly $1 million roading project aimed to mak...

Rachael Kelly/Stuff The Gore District Council decided not to use about 120 planters in its 'Streets Alive' programme, which were destined for the town's median strips. Concrete planters placed on Gore’s streets as part of a roading project have proven controversial – but there could have been a lot more of them on the roads. About 120 are sitting behind locked gates on council land in Salford St – some painted by children, and most with soil and plants in them. The planters are part of the Gore District Council’s $1 million Streets Alive project, which has changed some layouts for t...