A $55,000 council judgement error at Cardrona is to be laid to rest at a new cemetery near Queenstown.
The Cardrona village's ill-fated speed bumps have been assigned a new home at the Queenstown Lakes District Council's planned cemetery in Lower Shotover Rd, council chief engineer Ulrich Glasner said.
The four traffic calming ''thresholds'', made from river stones and exposed aggregate, have been gathering dust in the Cardrona village car park since being removed a year ago from Cardrona Valley Rd at the entrances to the village.
Their removal came just a month after they were installed, as they were considered a safety hazard for cyclists and motorcyclists.
The cost of installing and removing the $50,000 devices was $55,000, shared between the council and the New Zealand Transport Agency.
Mr Glasner said the new cemetery - which was not yet in use - was in a fairly isolated area, so there were concerns young motorists would use it as a ''speed circus''.
''This is why we'd like to protect this with these thresholds.''
The devices would be installed on the road within the cemetery early next year.
At Cardrona, alternative traffic-slowing measures were expected to be in place by Christmas, Mr Glasner said.
Motorists approaching the village from the Wanaka end would be greeted with a 50kmh ''pre-warning'' sign about 150m before the reduced speed zone began.
On the Crown Range side, just within the 50kmh zone, a digital sign would advise motorists of their speed and flash ''slow down'' if the legal limit was being exceeded.
Earlier this year, the findings of a council review into the construction of traffic safety improvements at Cardrona found that, while proper processes were followed, there were instances where ''better judgement in the implementation of the project could have avoided unnecessary costs''.
QLDC Mayor Vanessa van Uden said at the time the council's ''errors of judgement'' around the ''rumble zone of river stones'' needed to be acknowledged.
A decision to raise the level of the river stones during the construction stage had exacerbated safety risks and should have been discussed more widely within council before being implmented, Ms van Uden said.
Council chief executive Adam Feeley, who ordered the review, said at the time it was a ''one-off lapse of judgement from an otherwise professional team''.
