Mr. Stanley Chesterfield

Stanley Chesterfield, Transit New Zealand road safety engineer for the Wellington region, says the studs resolved a major safety problem.

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Stanley Chesterfield Road Safety Engineer

Transit,s road safety engineer Stanley Chesterfield said that drivers approaching this roundabout from Waimea Road will need to take notice of the new signs and get into the correct lane before passing under the Stafford Ave overbridge.

Mr Chesterfield said that some changes have also been made to prevent pedestrians walking across the Richmond exit lanes of the roundabout. ,For safety reasons, cyclists and pedestrians should use the overbridges and underpasses , these will be clearly signposted.,

For further information, contact Stanley Chesterfield, Road safety engineer, Transit New Zealand, phone 04 801 2592.

About 11am today Transit New Zealand road safety engineer Stanley Chesterfield said highway traffic was still being diverted through Paekakariki.

The problem was being caused by a rock stuck about halfway along the pipe.

"It's a bit of a tight fit and very hard to get out," he said.

"The stormwater that would like to go through the culvert is flowing across the highway."

All sorts of ways of moving the rock had been tried, including pushing high pressure water at it, Mr Chesterfield said.

Transit's project engineer, Stanley Chesterfield says there will be two sets of gates designed to be opened when a major incident in the Ngauranga Gorge or on the Hutt Road threatens a long road closure.
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Transit, the New Zealand Police and the contractors will decide when the gates will be opened, but it won't be for a minor nose-to-tail incident," Mr Chesterfield said.

Safety engineer Stanley Chesterfield says: "We hope that installing the guardrail will further reduce the crash rate and the number of serious injury accidents."

Transit road safety engineer Stanley Chesterfield said in a letter to the council the group were keen to see the speed reduced, citing the increase of housing in the area and the danger to children as reasons.

Mr Chesterfield commissioned a survey of the stretch of highway between Brooklyn Road and Dalefield Road.

Stanley Chesterfield, Transit's road safety engineer, agrees the Opaki bridge has been "muttered about for years".

He said there's no thoughts of replacing the bridge but it's thought the footpath could be taken away to widen the road and perhaps a clip on new footpath added on the outside.

The bridge is classed one of the "budget" structures built in the early 1930s as part of an employment scheme during the Depression.Parts have been strengthened but the basic overall design is original, including possible services laid within the existing footpath, a practice used in the past.

Mr Chesterfield admitted this type of work would only be "bandaid" improvements and wondered if the reasonably small number of crashes had been because the bridge was so frightening, it made motorists especially cautious.

"Which can't always be a bad thing," he said.