Road name | Location | Activity | Expected start date | Estimated completion date |
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Golden Bay |
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Local roads | Grading | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Te hapu Road | Water table cleaning and culvert install | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Aorere Valley Road and Quartz Range | Metaling | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Richmond |
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Wensley Road | Crack sealing | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Aniseed Valley Road | Flanking and high shoulder removal | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
McGlashen Avenue | Pavement repairs (night shift) | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Local roads | Envelope mow | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Motueka/Tasman area |
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Moutere Highway, Motueka Valley Highway | Flanking and high shoulder removal | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Motueka Valley Highway | Culvert replacements | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Kaiteriteri/Marahau |
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Moutere/Waimea |
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Tapawera/Dovedale |
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Local roads | Grading | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
St Arnaud |
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Kerr Hill Road | Drainage | In progress | 19 July 2024 | |
Murchison |
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Local roads | Grading | In progress | 12 July 2024 | |
Brightwater |
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Wakefield |
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None planned |
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Please send any objections to tania.brown@tasman.govt.nz
Applicant: | Nelson Car Club |
Event: | Dovedale Hill – Phil Fiddymont Memorial Rallysprint |
Location: | Pigeon Valley Rd / Dovedale Road |
Date/time: | Saturday 26 October 2024 between 9am and 5pm |
Objections close | 5.00 pm Friday 9 August 2024. Please send any objections to tania.brown@tasman.govt.nz |
Applicant: | Motueka Events Charitable Trust |
Event: | Starlight Christmas Parade |
Location: | High Street from Poole Street, down to Whakarewa Street and Wallace Street from High Street end down to the Decks Reserve carpark entrance. |
Date/time: | Friday 6 December 2024 – Closure times 6pm for High Street and 3pm for Wallace Street (to allow for catering trucks to set up) Closure finish 9pm. |
Objections close | 5.00 pm Friday 16 August 2024. Please send any objections to tania.brown@tasman.govt.nz |
Applicant: | Richmond Unlimited |
Event: | Richmond Santa Parade |
Location: | Edward St, Queen Street, McIndoe Place, Cambridge Street, Wensley Road, Washbourne Drive, Harkness Carpark, Salisbury Road. |
Date/time: | Sunday 8 December 2024 – Closure times 7am Edward Street, 11:30am all other roads. Finish Edward Street 2pm and 3pm all other roads. |
Objections close | Objections close 5.00 pm, Friday 27 September 2024. Please send any objections to tania.brown@tasman.govt.nz |
Applicant: | Richmond Unlimited |
Event: | Richmond Market |
Location: | Queen St between John Wesley Lane and McIndoe Place. |
Date/time: | Monday 30 December 2024 - closure times 5.00am – 6:30pm |
Objections close | Objections close 5.00 pm, Friday 27 September 2024. Please send any objections to tania.brown@tasman.govt.nz |
If you would like to object to a proposed road closure, just write to us. Please include the applicant's name and the date of the event and your reasons for objecting.
189 Queen Street, Private Bag 4, Richmond, Nelson 7050Any upcoming approved road closures will be advised here.
Road resurfacing work usually happens between October and March. Warmer air and ground temperatures allow the best results.
If you live on a street that is going to be resealed, the Tasman Alliance will deliver a notification letter to your address about a week before the work starts.
On the day of the work, parking will be restricted and there will be temporary limited access to properties for pedestrians and vehicles.
This will allow full access for the construction machinery and help the job to run smoothly so it can be completed quickly.
We aim to reduce the inconvenience to you as much as possible, but there will be trucks, rollers and workers on site so expect some noise, dust and other disruption.
You can help keep everyone safe by:
So that you don’t trek any of the binder (black stuff) or sticky little stones from the recently resurfaced road, it’s best to avoid walking on any part of the road for several weeks. If you can’t avoid it, make sure you check your shoes or take them off before you go inside. You may also want to check them before you get into your car.
Sometimes vehicles can track the binder into private driveways. If this is a concern to you, you may wish to make other parking arrangements for a few days after the reseal.
To ensure a tidy finished road surface, please avoid any vehicle movements that could damage the recently resurfaced road such as:
Road resurfacing is crucial to the long term maintenance and safety of our District’s roads. Each year about 50 kilometres of road is resurfaced – or 5 per cent of the District’s 1000km of sealed roads. It’s a ~$4 million programme of work, of which Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency funds approximately half.
Most of the resurfacing done is chip seal (small stones over emulsified bitumen) because it is a cost effective way to keep water out of the underlying road structure and provides a highly skid-resistant surface. Some resurfacing is done with asphalt (smooth black surfacing), however, because of the cost, among other reasons, this cannot be used everywhere.
We have speed restrictions in place in some high risk areas, and advisory boards reminding people to slow down and drive to the conditions. Any dark/damp section of road should be approached with extreme caution during periods of cold or icy weather.
Our grit truck drivers are out in the early hours every freezing morning spreading grit on the worst affected roads to improve surface conditions so we can drive around safely in winter. However, motorists still need to drive to the conditions.
The cabin of a car can be 20 degrees on a sub-zero morning, but the car being comfortable doesn’t mean the road is free of ice and drivers can be lulled into a false sense of safety. Ice can remain on roads all day, especially in areas shaded by high banks and tall trees. These roads freeze sooner and may not thaw during the day.
Grit only adds about 15 percent extra traction, which isn’t much when you’re driving on ice. Grit itself can be very slippery and can be a big risk to a vehicles traction, especially motorcycles. In New Zealand we do not use salt on roads for environmental reasons.
Tips to stay safe:
High risk areas to watch out for are south-facing shaded patches of road, and inland valleys. Our contractors are out early every morning gritting our roads from 4.00am, and of those that have high volumes we are also gritting throughout the day as well as every evening.
Below is a list of high risk roads that the grit trucks make regular runs on daily in winter, but there may be sites that are higher priority or freeze faster than others. There are other roads that will be gritted as needed and this can change due to weather conditions.
We also use information received via calls from our residents to prioritise areas of concern.
(Excludes Golden Bay and Murchison)
Motueka/Riwaka area
Motueka Valley Highway, including
Motueka River West Bank Road, including
Tapawera/Golden Downs area
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