Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
Papakura DC
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Participate with the Land Transport Safety Authority, Toll NZ, Auckland and Waitakere City Councils in a review of all existing railway level crossings within the Auckland metropolitan area, to ensure that their design, layout, signage and warning devices are adequate for current road and rail traffic volumes and will be adequate to meet projected increases in rail traffic on the Auckland rail corridors.
Reply Text
With respect to the final safety recommendations set out in your letter of the 12th May 2004, the Papakura District Council is currently taking the following actions.
The Council is seeking Transfund New Zealand support for a project to investigate and improve the safety of the road intersections that cross the North Island main trunk railway line which runs through Papakura District. This project was identified in Council’s submission to Transfund New Zealand’s 2004/05 National Land Transport programme. The terms of reference for the railway level crossing study are attached to this letter.
The Papakura District Council is willing to provide the results of its study to the Land Transport Safety Authority, Toll New Zealand, Auckland and Waitakere City Councils as part of the review of existing railway level crossings within the Auckland Metropolitan area.
The Council’s planning and consent procedures involving side roads and exits from private rights-of-way, joining public roads, within the vicinity of railway level crossings are subject to scrutiny and input from the Council’s traffic engineers. The Council’s traffic engineers are fully aware of the safety issues with railway level crossings and access from nearby properties onto the railway line, or roads in the vicinity of the railway line.
When completed, the Papakura District Council railway level crossing study results will be forwarded to the Land Transport Safety Authority, Toll New Zealand, Auckland and Waitakere City Councils and the Transport Accident investigation Commission.
The Council is seeking Transfund New Zealand support for a project to investigate and improve the safety of the road intersections that cross the North Island main trunk railway line which runs through Papakura District. This project was identified in Council’s submission to Transfund New Zealand’s 2004/05 National Land Transport programme. The terms of reference for the railway level crossing study are attached to this letter.
The Papakura District Council is willing to provide the results of its study to the Land Transport Safety Authority, Toll New Zealand, Auckland and Waitakere City Councils as part of the review of existing railway level crossings within the Auckland Metropolitan area.
The Council’s planning and consent procedures involving side roads and exits from private rights-of-way, joining public roads, within the vicinity of railway level crossings are subject to scrutiny and input from the Council’s traffic engineers. The Council’s traffic engineers are fully aware of the safety issues with railway level crossings and access from nearby properties onto the railway line, or roads in the vicinity of the railway line.
When completed, the Papakura District Council railway level crossing study results will be forwarded to the Land Transport Safety Authority, Toll New Zealand, Auckland and Waitakere City Councils and the Transport Accident investigation Commission.
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