Cambridge News | 13 April 2018

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APRIL 13, 2018

What next for SH1?

An increase in traffic on State Highway 1 between Cambridge and Pairere has made the intersection with Karapiro Rd a ‘nightmare’ for locals. By Claire Castle

With uncertainty surrounding the plans to extend the Waikato Expressway to the Tauranga turnoff, concerned locals are speaking out about the urgent need for improvements to the intersection of Karapiro Rd and SH1. Dave and Lisa Roigard, owners of bus company Karapiro Charters which is based on Karapiro Rd, said that making a right turn onto the highway towards Cambridge has become a nightmare. They regularly cop abuse from other motorists trying to get into the Mobil site through the entrance right by the

stop sign, with some drivers rounding the corner on the wrong side of the road to access the station. Council said the yellow ‘no stopping’ markings on Karapiro Rd at the entrance to the service station will be repainted, however in a resource consent granted in November to the Mobil for redevelopment, the condition has been imposed that the entrance by the stop sign on Karapiro Rd be closed for safety reasons. With two quarries and a bus company operating down Karapiro Rd, the entrance is regularly and unavoidably blocked by long vehicles. But it’s not just people trying to get

in and out of the Mobil that are the problem, with the Roigards saying that the stretch of SH1 has become much busier over recent years, particularly since the expressway opened in December 2015. It’s a claim backed up by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) which said traffic volume on the SH1 route has increased from 15,000 vehicles per day in 2013 to 19,000 in 2017, with 11 per cent being high capacity vehicles. None of this comes as any surprise to the Roigards, with Dave saying he has recently had to wait at the intersection for 12 minutes until he could get his bus

across the road. And predictions are that the once the ring road around Hamilton is complete, SH1 will get even busier as motorists use it to travel north in preference to SH 27 through Matamata. The NZTA’s Director Regional Relationships, Parekawhia McLean, said that the agency is developing a new draft state highway investment proposal, based on the recent Government Policy Statement (GPS), which is expected to be released in late April. This will outline the proposed investment in state highway Continued page 2

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