Work progressing on project to improve road safety for Taieri pupils
The road has been narrowed and planter boxes added in Argyle St, near Elmgrove School, as a part of a new project to make getting to school safer for pupils in Mosgiel and Outram.
Work on the MosgielTaieri Safer School
Streets project — a collaboration between the Dunedin City Council, MosgielTaieri Community Board and local schools — began last month.
It followed the board, schools, parents and pupils expressing concerns about poor driver behaviour, a lack of safe crossings, as well as no cycle or scooter routes.
The project will cost $150,000 — 90% of which is funded from the NZ Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets for People Fund.
It includes a new crossing outside Outram School and temporary infrastructure installed in Bush and Factory Rds and Argyle and Green Sts.