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Tina Plunkett said nearly getting knocked off her bike twice in a day on Great North Road was her limit. A plan to change the road to make it safer is being reviewed. Plunkett has spoken before about car loaders parking illegally on the road, and said she and her daughter had previously been stuck on a pedestrian refuge after two trucks parked up on either side of the road. The Newton resident said she had another near miss earlier in the same day Another car transporter was parked on the median strip and a motorist was reversing into traffic to load the car, she said.
Residents claim barrier will create more traffic hazards
Auckland Transport (AT) will press ahead with plans to install a “safety” crash barrier on Sandspit Road despite complaints from local landowners who say it will actually create a traffic hazard.
The barrier will be located on the southern side of a section of Sandspit Road, east of Hamilton Road.
But landowner representative Gary Heaven says that particular section of Sandspit Road is one of the safest.
“In the past 15 years there have been several fatal and non-injury accidents near Hamilton Road, but all of these were west of Hamilton Road,” he says.
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A mother and her child became stuck on a pedestrian refuge when a car transporter pulled over on the road in front of them and another behind them. (File photo) Between the beginning of 2018 and the end of 2020, Auckland Transport had issued tickets to the collective value of $5160 for parking on broken yellow lines and $560 for parking in the flush median, spokesman Mark Hannan said. Local woman Tina Plunkett told
Stuff in 2019 she would usually see about four or five car transporters while taking her daughter to and from school. She also saw ramps being lowered on the road, cars being reversing into oncoming traffic, cyclists struggling to navigate around them, and a transporter parked completely over the top of a pedestrian island, she said.
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