Students question roading project

An unfinished road safety project has created its own hazard on Otago Peninsula, the Dunedin City Council has been told.

The part of the shared path that had been completed was popular, drawing cyclists and pedestrians, but there were gaps, it heard.

Portobello School pupils (from left) Robin Luff, Koru Dickson, Bella Monteith and Ivy Larkins,...
Portobello School pupils (from left) Robin Luff, Koru Dickson, Bella Monteith and Ivy Larkins, all aged 11, want a road safety project to be finished. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON
Dave Macpherson was one submitter at a council annual plan hearing yesterday who described the existing situation as a mismatch, or "a mess".