Maintenance

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Rural and Urban General Maintenance

Footpath cracked and unsafe? Road sign damaged? Pot holes?

If you notice something to do with the roads or footpaths that needs maintenance please let us know. This includes:

• Broken or flickering street lights.
• Loose seal which may cause damage to vehicles or an accident.
• Faulty traffic lights.
• Faded road markings.
• Broken glass or debris on the road.
• Overhanging branches blocking footpaths.

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We are responsible for the maintenance of local roads. This includes streetlights, cycleways, footpaths, seating and other street furniture, pedestrian crossings and ramps, road signs, road markings, repair and maintenance of existing kerb and channel, street cleaning, traffic signals, service covers (e.g. manhole covers, grates) and maintaining vegetation on road sides.

The clean up of spillages such as diesel on local roads, crash response and debris cleanup is also done by us.

Vegetation maintenance

To eradicate any pest plants and hinder vegetation growth to ensure safe sight distances, we use chemical sprays on road sides and a non-toxic and non-chemical spray (usually Round-Up) in road side drains and inlets of culvert pipes.
 
Residents can ask for their property frontage to be a 'no spray zone', providing you manage the vegetation growth and pest plants at your own cost. We will work with you to ensure the maintenance meets safety requirements. 

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Road Works

This section is updated regularly.

Last update: 30 January 2012
Next update: 1 March 2012

You can sort the information in the tables below by work, location, contractor, start date and finish by clicking on each heading. For more information about roading projects please contact us on 06-759 6060 or use our contact us form.

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Current projects 

Work	Location	Contractor	Start date	Finish date
Urban road cleaning	District wide	Chemwash	2009	30/06/2012
Urban road general maintenance	District wide	Fulton Hogan	01/07/2009	30/06/2012
Rural road general maintenance	District wide	Fulton Hogan	01/10/2008	30/09/2011
CBD cleaning	New Plymouth, Waitara and Inglewood CBDs	Chemwash Taranaki Ltd	01/07/2007	29/02/2012
Road markings	District wide	Coastline Markers	01/07/2009	30/06/2012
CBD camera maintenance	New Plymouth, Waitara and Inglewood CBDs	Obertech Security	1/12/2010	30/11/2013
Traffic signal maintenance	District wide including state highways	Traffic Signal Maintenance	15/12/2011	30/11/2014
Street Light Maintenance	District wide	New Plymouth Electrical	1/09/2010	31/08/2013
Culvert improvements	Motukawa Road	Whitaker Civil Construction	21/02/2011	31/12/2011
Seal widening and minor safety programme	Plymouth Road	Burgess & Crowley	1/11/2011	15/02/2012
Urban road resealing	Various locations	Downer EDI Works	01/10/2011	31/03/2012
Footpath and kerb and chanelling	Grey Street, Waitara	Inframax Consultation	1/11/2012	31/12/2011
Steel bridge painting	Various locations	Whitaker Civil Construction	1/11/2011	31/12/2011
Culvet replacements	Various rural roads	Whitaker Civil Construction	1/11/2011	31/03/2012
Seal widening and minor safety programme	Mataro Road	Whitaker Civil Construction	1/12/2011	29/03/2012
Footpath and kerb and channel works	Windsor Road and Dudley Road	Downer Construction	15/12/2011	29/02/2012
Emergency reinstatement works	Mohakatino Road and Okau Road	Whitaker Civil Construction	28/11/2011	29/03/2012
Cycle lane marking	District wide	Resin Surfaces
Dust Coat Seals	Piko, Maude, Mimi roads	Whitaker Civil Construction	16/01/2012	29/12/2012
Roundabout	Tukapa Street and Omata Road intersection	Civilscape	13/02/2012	31/05/2012
Pavement strengthening and hotmix	Devon Street and Brougham Street	Taranaki Civil Construction	15/02/2012	31/03/2012

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Projects coming up

Work	Location	Contractor	Start date	Finish date
Tukapa and David streets intersection improvements	Tukapa and David streets	Under design
Shoulder strengthening	Lower Timaru Road	Under design
Seal widening	Hurford Road	Under design
Shoulder strengthening	Ngatimaru Road	On hold
Turning head	Pukaka St	Out for tender

 

Related links

• State highway maintenance responsibilities

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