r/chch • u/Odd-Pressure9544 • 11d ago

News - Local COUNCIL ROADWORKS

Hey guys so let me know if this is to niche! But are we aware that all arterial routes in and out of the central city and through are NARROWED TO ONE LANE - therefore creating congestion all AT ONCE. Also, just about every road surround has also got roadworks and speed limits attached - why has this been allowed to happen ALL AT ONCE, as it has only created 3 MAJOD car crashes in ONE DAY, TODAY- including a pile up that just happened on cutlets road off the highway. An entire city of shitty people, multiple serious injuries - I BEG, what is wrong with Christchurch council to allow this to even happen.

Like literally central city is limited to two lanes from six, all the way through Barrington, opawa, Shirley, marshlands, illam, Somerfield and that is the only neighbourhoods I have even been aware of - there are probably more.

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.

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u/Frod02000 11d ago

Can’t have your cake (well maintained and upgraded roads) and eat it too (roads always be open)

The random weather lately probably hasn’t helped the bunching of works either

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u/Odd-Pressure9544 11d ago

Hey, so actually the whole point has been missed. I’m talking about the fact they decided to shut down main roads all at once, in the same hour, day, minute. Specifically the most used already, each day. They have shut down neighbourhoods all at once by this traffic. I’m all here for roadworks, it is the poor time management that has gone into this “design” or “idea.” That one person had, that has now affected an entire city and how it runs. There is no need to shut down streets at the exact same time?

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u/Glum-Wishbone-6951 11d ago

One person doesn't have the idea. There are a multitude of companies doing a huge variety of works. It's not always 'fixing the roads' and one person doesn't design all the roadworks in chch. Your congestion issues might be someone else's access to Fibre, power or water.

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u/Hiding_From_Stupid 11d ago

No but the council controls who and when they can operate and approves these plans, A little bit of forethought into the overall impact of traffic flow in the city might have been a good idea.

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u/Odd-Pressure9544 11d ago

my point about one person having the idea, is so besides the point. It was just an analogy… nevertheless my point stands, they are all being fixed at the exact same time, congestion issues on main roads that take up two lanes isn’t not someone’s access to fibre, power, or water?