We know that speed is a long-standing challenge on Maunganui Road. With this safety upgrade, we’re aiming to create a calmer, safer environment for everyone who travels through the area. The new road layout includes traffic lanes and roundabouts that are designed to encourage drivers to naturally reduce their speed. Other improvements include safer bike paths, pedestrian crossing points, new roundabouts and more greenery along the road.
We’re aiming to complete this work by 2024, depending on the weather and other factors outside of our control. Thanks for your patience and consideration while we get this work done.
Project overview
We’re completing this project in four sections:
- Tui Street to Hull Road - Coming Soon
- Golf Road to Tui Street - Nearing Completion
- Hinau Street to Sutherland Avenue - Nearing Completion
- Hull Road to Hinau Street - Complete
Tui Street to Hull Road
We’ve been working on the designs for the final stage of the Maunganui Road upgrade. This section is located between Tui Street and Hull Road and is the final part of the wider Maunganui Road safety improvements project. The road design will link up with earlier stages of Maunganui Road upgrades, to increase road safety and provide for safer alternative modes of travel.
This stretch of Maunganui Road has some complex intersections, given the nearby Central Parade Shopping Centre and associated car parking areas. Businesses in the area have also expressed their safety concerns.
Having considered a range of design options, in late August, we held several community sessions where we took the opportunity to discuss the preferred designs. We’re currently working through this feedback and will provide an update shortly on the proposed designs.
Tui Street to Hull Road - Detailed design (13mb pdf)
Golf Road to Tui Street and Hinau Street to Sutherland Avenue
These much loved and well used sections of Maunganui Road have seen an increase in the volume of traffic and numbers of cyclists and pedestrians. To keep everyone safe, a range of improvements have been implemented to create a safer, greener space. We’ve also used the opportunity to upgrade the road surface, kerbs and drainage infrastructure.
Work in these sections of Maunganui Road includes:
- solid grassed median strip with trees/plantings
- improved cycling facilities and connections to existing cycleways
- new roundabouts at Tui Street, Hinau Street, Matai Street and Sutherland Avenue
- improved pedestrian crossing points between Hinau Street and Sutherland Avenue
- new kerbs and improved stormwater drainage
Golf Road to Tui Street - Detailed design (10.1mb pdf)
Hinau Street to Sutherland Avenue - Detailed design (18.7mb pdf)
Latest news
- Between Golf Road and Tui Street, outstanding work includes the installation of some small traffic islands and the cycle way at the Tui Street roundabout and some finishing touches at the Golf Road roundabout.
- Between Sutherland Avenue and Hinau Street, a number of elements are outstanding, including the permanent roundabout at Hinau Street, lifting of the shared path at the Puriri Street corner of the roundabout at Sutherland Avenue, planting of the garden beds and some other finishing touches.
Hull Road to Hinau Street
Improvements in this section were competed in 2021 and include increased parking spaces, two new roundabouts, a 3 metre shared pathway, and improved connections to other cycle paths.
- formalised car parking, change some to angle parking and provide more than 160 additional parking spaces at Blake Park and the Mount Action Centre
- 3 metre wide shared footpath/cycleway adjacent Blake Park
- new Blake Park/Bay Oval entrance and footpath link.
- new roundabouts at Clyde Street and Tay Street
- solid grassed median strip with trees/plantings
- improved pedestrian crossing points
- road resurfacing with asphaltic concrete
- new streetlighting
- new roadmarkings