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Work to improve safety and access at the rail crossing on Sawyers Arms Road commences on Monday 10 February, and will continue through to mid April 2025.

Upgrades include: a signalised pedestrian crossing, improved pedestrian railway crossing points; and additional flashing lights and bells. Other works will include new ducting and drainage, new kerb and channels, new footpaths and streetscaping. Through most of this work there will be a lane closure and temporary traffic lights to control traffic. For two weeks in early March there will be a full closure of Sawyers Arms Road, with detours in place.

When the Sawyers Arms construction is complete, all three upgraded crossings (Harewood Road, Langdons Road, Sawyers Arms Road) need to be commissioned together due to the integrated signalling design. KiwiRail have indicated they have resource in May to perform the commissioning works and turn on the lights and automatic railway gates at all three crossings.

Take care if you are in the area and watch for changed traffic conditions.

For more information see the works notice:
ccc.govt.nz/transport/works-3/show/1682

An update on construction of safety features at the Cranford/McFaddens intersection: due to rain on the night that the raised safety platform on Cranford Street and the road resurfacing was due to be completed, the project is currently unfinished. New dates for the remaining works are yet to be advised.

The Council’s EcoDrop Resource Recovery Centres are open today 6 February, and there are no changes to kerbside collection days this week.

For more information on rubbish, recycling, and organics, head to:
ccc.govt.nz/services/rubbish-and-recycling

This Friday 24 January the Belfast Skate Jam will be on at Sheldon Park, with free skills and tips from skate coaches, live music, a water fight, and more. See the Facebook event for more information, or the Cheapskates Skate Skool Facebook page.

Work on safety improvements at the Cranford Street / McFaddens Road intersection will get underway on Monday 20 January.

For around a week there will be a 24-hour closure of McFaddens Road at the intersection, and a lane drop will be in place on Cranford Street northbound. For some of this time there will be night closures of Cranford Street northbound. Take care if you are in the area and watch for detours and changed traffic conditions.

This work was approved by the Waipapa Community Board in May 2024, following an independent post-construction Safety Audit which identified a ‘Serious’ issue relating to left-turning vehicles from McFaddens Road running the red light at the pedestrian crossing on Cranford Street. The audit also raised a ‘Significant’ issue around red light running associated with northbound traffic.

For more info see the Start Work Notice:
https://ccc.govt.nz/transport/works-3/show/1674

From Monday 13 January through to 3 February there will be a full closure of the Wairakei Road / Aorangi Road intersection, and of Aorangi Road between Wairakei and Condell.

Work commencing includes: wastewater, stormwater, and water supply replacements and upgrades; construction of the final section of the Nor’West Arc Cycleway; and a street renewal of Aorangi Road.

From early February through to mid June, Wairakei Road will be open citybound only, as works in the area continue.

For more information on the works see the link below, and for details of work on Te Ara O-Rakipaoa Nor’West Arc Cycleway head to ccc.govt.nz/norwestarc.

The start work notice is available at: ccc.govt.nz/transport/works-3/show/1670

Take care of your last-minute Christmas shopping at Redwood Market this Saturday 21 December from 10am to 1pm at the Redwood Hotel, 340 Main North Road.

This Sunday at 5pm bring your picnic chairs or blankets and come to St Paul’s Anglican Church, Papanui to sing Carols. Listen to the St Albans Community Choir, the choir of the St John Moraia Fijian Methodist Church, the Christchurch Accordion Orchestra and the musicians from Northcity Church. There’ll be activities for children, and if the weather is not fine, the event will be held inside the church.

https://stpaulspapanui.org.nz/events/carols-in-the-church-courtyard

On 12 December 2024, the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board:

• heard four public forum presentations;
• approved a $4,000 grant to Shirley Rugby League Football Club, and a $2,408 grant to Papanui Leagues Club;
• approved mobility parking at Lancaster Park;
• approved no stopping restrictions on Virgil Place;
• approved no stopping restrictions for the intersection of Beeston Place & Freebairn Street;
• approved a replacement traffic island for Rutland Street at Westminster Street;
• approved a $8,000 grant to Community Focus Trust;
• approved a $2,000 grant to Kiwi Indians Theatre;
• approved an $8,000 grant to Together Diverse;
• and received a report on issues and initiatives within the Board area.

The Board is now in recess until its first meeting for 2025, which will be on 13 February in the Papanui Boardroom.

Click through to read the full minutes:
https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2024/12/PCBCC_20241212_MIN_9133_AT_WEB.htm

Wheelie bin collection days will be different for many properties over the next two weeks. With both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, bins will be collected the day after their normal collection day for the remainder of that week, eg Monday & Tuesday collections will continue as normal, but all other collections will be delayed by a day.

To find collection days and check for public holiday and other information, head to: https://ccc.govt.nz/services/rubbish-and-recycling/collections