We know that speed is a long-standing challenge on Maunganui Road. With this safety upgrade, we’re aiming to create a calmer, safer environment for everyone who travels through the area. The new road layout includes traffic lanes and roundabouts that are designed to encourage drivers to naturally reduce their speed. Other improvements include safer bike paths, pedestrian crossing points, new roundabouts, and more greenery along the road.
We’re aiming to complete this work in the final quarter of 2024, depending on the weather and other factors outside of our control. Thanks for your patience and consideration while we get this work done and please be kind to the construction team, they are just doing their job.
Project overview
We’re completing this project in four sections:
- Tui Street to Hull Road - Commenced 13 March
- Golf Road to Tui Street - Complete
- Hinau Street to Sutherland Avenue - Complete
- Hull Road to Hinau Street - Complete
Tui Street to Hull Road
We’ve completed the safety improvements around the new skatepark - building a new shared path, new signalised crossings for safer access, and adding traffic lights to the intersection of Tweed Street and Maunganui Road.
Now work has begun on the portion between Central Parade and Tui Street.
Some of the improvements and upgrades include:
- Extending the shared path from the skatepark to Dee Street.
- Better bus stops and shelters.
- Closure of the Heath Street and Maunganui Road intersection.
- A new roundabout at the intersection of Kupe Avenue and Maunganui Road.
- Safer cycle lanes.
The road designs were shared at community open days, and workshops with businesses, Mount Maunganui College, and the Returned Services Association, and the feedback has been largely supportive of the upgrades, providing some valuable local insight.
Central Parade businesses and car parks remain open during construction and Heath Street is still accessible via the Central Parade carpark entrance or the adjacent side roads.
Separable portion 1 drawing (2.2mb pdf)
Hull Road to Tui Street general arrangement drawings (13.3mb pdf)
Golf Road to Tui Street and Hinau Street to Sutherland Avenue
These much loved and well used sections of Maunganui Road have seen an increase in the volume of traffic and numbers of cyclists and pedestrians. To keep everyone safe, a range of improvements have been implemented to create a safer, greener space. We’ve also used the opportunity to upgrade the road surface, kerbs and drainage infrastructure.
Work in these sections of Maunganui Road includes:
- solid grassed median strip with trees/plantings
- improved cycling facilities and connections to existing cycleways
- new roundabouts at Tui Street, Hinau Street, Matai Street and Sutherland Avenue
- improved pedestrian crossing points between Hinau Street and Sutherland Avenue
- new kerbs and improved stormwater drainage
Golf Road to Tui Street - Detailed design (10.1mb pdf)
Hinau Street to Sutherland Avenue - Detailed design (18.7mb pdf)
Latest updates
- Between Golf Road and Tui Street, outstanding work includes the installation of some small traffic islands and the cycle way at the Tui Street roundabout and some finishing touches at the Golf Road roundabout.
- Between Sutherland Avenue and Hinau Street, a number of elements are outstanding, including the permanent roundabout at Hinau Street, lifting of the shared path at the Puriri Street corner of the roundabout at Sutherland Avenue, planting of the garden beds and some other finishing touches.
Hull Road to Hinau Street
Improvements in this section were competed in 2021 and include increased parking spaces, two new roundabouts, a 3 metre shared pathway, and improved connections to other cycle paths.
- formalised car parking, change some to angle parking and provide more than 160 additional parking spaces at Blake Park and the Mount Action Centre
- 3 metre wide shared footpath/cycleway adjacent Blake Park
- new Blake Park/Bay Oval entrance and footpath link.
- new roundabouts at Clyde Street and Tay Street
- solid grassed median strip with trees/plantings
- improved pedestrian crossing points
- road resurfacing with asphaltic concrete
- new streetlighting
- new roadmarkings