Work progressing on project to improve road safety for Taieri pupils

The road has been narrowed and planter boxes added in Argyle St, near Elmgrove School, as a part of a new project to make getting to school safer for pupils in Mosgiel and Outram.

Work on the Mosgiel-Taieri Safer School Streets project — a collaboration between the Dunedin City Council, Mosgiel-Taieri Community Board and local schools — began last month.

It followed the board, schools, parents and pupils expressing concerns about poor driver behaviour, a lack of safe crossings, as well as no cycle or scooter routes.

The project will cost $150,000 — 90% of which is funded from the NZ Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets for People Fund.

It includes a new crossing outside Outram School and temporary infrastructure installed in Bush and Factory Rds and Argyle and Green Sts.