The long-awaited reopening to vehicles of Dunedin's John Wilson Ocean Dr is expected to happen on Wednesday.
Dunedin city council parks manager Lisa Wheeler said there were a few minor details to work out, but it was expected that signs explaining the rules and times of opening would go up on Wednesday morning, before the bollards were lifted out for the first time at 11am.
The 1km stretch of road has been closed to vehicles for more than six years, initially while a sewage outfall pipe was constructed, then while the council tried to decide whether to make it a permanent vehicle-free promenade.
Security guards will remove and replace bollards at the St Kilda end of the road at 11am and 3pm respectively each week day, allowing vehicles to travel along it at up to 50kmh.
New road markings have been painted on, to separate vehicles from pedestrians during those open hours. At all other times the road is open for pedestrians only.
-debbie.porteous@odt.co.nz