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Whangaparāoa resident Claire Tierney wants to see changes to traffic controls on Whangaparaoa Road to reduce congestion and queues at lights during rush hour.
She presented her concerns to the Hibiscus & Bays Local Board at its meeting last month, saying that the situation needs to be fixed before Penlink is built.
The section of road in question is the 400m between Link Crescent and Wade River Road, which has five intersections – three light controlled and two give-ways.
Claire told the board members that to avoid this section of road, large numbers of commuters are “rat-running”, diverting off the main road through residential streets and joining it again at Vipond Road lights.
She says this is already causing stress on roads that were not designed for this volume of traffic, and that commuters often speed.
“Residents on the ‘rat running’ route are fed up,” she said.
Her suggested solutions included Auckland Council purchasing the Ministry of Education land on the corner of Stanmore Bay Road and Whangaparāoa Road to improve that intersection and Coast Plaza access.
The local board asked Auckland Transport to investigate the problem – something its representative at the meeting, Ellen Barrett, said would take time, as it is a complex issue.
