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Planting season is now underway along Cameron Road in Zone B, between Sixth Avenue and Twelfth Avenue.
This work to establish the new garden beds follows on from planting work in Zone A between Harington Street and Sixth Avenue. Planting in Zone C will follow. This gardening work helps to complete the look and feel of the streetscapes where it has taken place.
Construction is underway in two sections of the centre median - between Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Avenue, and between Tauranga Boys' College and Fifteenth Avenue. More sections of the centre median work will get underway as work on the streetscapes progresses.
Construction at present includes the major intersections at Fifteenth Avenue and Elizabeth Street, and the smaller intersections at: Third Avenue (west), Seventh Avenue (west), Tenth Avenue (west) and Sixteenth (east).
There are lane closures in place throughout Cameron Road on both the eastern and western sides of the road to keep the community and our team safe while these works are underway.
Intersection work:
- Cameron Road/ Elizabeth Street (north-east corner, outside Pacific Toyota): there is a southbound left lane closure which extends left around the corner into Elizabeth Street (east).
- Elizabeth Street (east)/ Cameron Road (south-east corner, outside St Mary Immaculate church): there is a left lane closure for traffic turning left from Elizabeth Street on to Cameron Road.
- Second Avenue (west): the centre lanes of Cameron Road passing Second Avenue are closed.
- Third Avenue (west): is exit only.
- Fourth Avenue intersection (east): is now open and remains entry only.
- Arundel Street: is entry only.
- Fifth Avenue (east): is entry only.
- Seventh Avenue (west): is now closed permanently to traffic as it becomes a green space cul-de-sac.
- Tenth Avenue intersection (west): this intersection is closed.
- Fifteenth Avenue intersection (east): the left lane that turns from Fifteenth Avenue on to Cameron Road is closed. This closure continues around the corner on to Cameron Road towards 17th Avenue. Traffic can still access Cameron Road from Fifteenth Avenue by using the centre lane.
- Sixteenth Avenue/Cameron Road (east): is closed. Access to Sixteenth Avenue (east) remains via Devonport Road.
- Sixteenth Avenue (west): is exit only.
Tauranga City Council ask that motorists take these works into account when planning journeys and to prepare for lane closures and potential delays.
You can check here for travel updates. We also recommend checking Google Maps or Waka Kotahi NZTA Journey Planner.
For more detailed information on these works, visit the road closures webpage.
14 comments
gardens
Posted on 28-05-2023 09:13 | By peter pan
Why turn parking space into gardens.Who pays for the maintenance of them,sure way of killing of shopping on Cameron road,
Looks like bark?
Posted on 28-05-2023 09:24 | By Murray.Guy
Looks like bark. It appears staff haven't learnt from experience, the bark in a heavy rain event ends up in the stormwater, blocking grates. Ask Rosalie, Commons Ave folk.
Just watch
Posted on 28-05-2023 09:27 | By Chookymac
I bet this turns to Shite. After all look at the Gardens at Cherrywood shopping centre.The Mowing of lawns in General around Tauranga.The sweeping of roads.It is either the TCC is too mean for the contractores to establish a year round routine or the contractors nead replacing.The general outlook is Shabby.
Garden Beds
Posted on 28-05-2023 10:08 | By The Sage
Great idea to beautify the roads. Here’s hoping the Council will take better care of these garden beds than they do of the current ones around the city. The Parks, Reserves and Garden beds are in a disgusting state of disrepair.
Not needed
Posted on 28-05-2023 10:12 | By Roger
It will be interesting to see how these gardens will be maintained when the rest of Tauranga’s gardens and roadsides go neglected . Just another ongoing cost for what was once a good city road with ample parking for a once busy city business area .
Lines of sight
Posted on 28-05-2023 12:50 | By david mends
In Te Puke where there has been extensive plantings the main problem has been with lines of sight with clear visibility from both a pedestrians view point and a drivers
Gardens
Posted on 28-05-2023 13:10 | By Peaches
These are gardens for the lazy, plant and walk away never to be touch again, which is what the TCC is about. Where have all Tga flower beds gone? last time I was in Whakatane their flower gardens in the center were stunning and buzzing with bees and no parking meters the town was buzzing with people shopping, seems TCC just can't even be bothered to mow the grass, why pay rates.
Gardens
Posted on 28-05-2023 13:22 | By Robin
More boring gardens, untidy grasses which end up dying in a couple of years. Why can’t they use their imagination and have more interesting plants. More parking especially for the disabled who be appreciated.
Swapping easy access to businesses, for flower beds?
Posted on 28-05-2023 13:32 | By morepork
While I love flowers and always have some in my house, what genius believes that doing this will help to "revitalize" our City? Without commerce and easy access to it, there can be no "revitalization". It is all based around the flawed premise that we will all do our shopping using bicycles and buffalo buses. They still don't realize the resistance that compulsion and coercion give rise to. Did anyone ask you if you wanted flower beds (that require upkeep) on the main City artery, and if you would take the bus or bike? Were you consulted about having months of cones in the area? I wasn't and I'm betting no-one else was either. An architect's impression ALWAYS looks good; but there may well be other (more important) factors that need consideration as well. Like, how do the people who live there feel about it...
Never mind
Posted on 28-05-2023 18:28 | By Kancho
All this nonsense . I want to know when these commissioners are going to cut back spending and staffing like Rotorua, Auckland and many other councils. This lot will probably just wack on another double digit rate increase like the previous two .
@ by Roger
Posted on 30-05-2023 14:24 | By Howbradseesit
A few months and these gardens will look like the rubbish ones in the CBD that no one weeds. Not like we needed anything else for City Care or similarly contracted companies to not to get to. As always, hope I'm proven wrong.
Optimism.
Posted on 01-06-2023 15:10 | By morepork
I try to be optimistic and generally cheerful, but I believe that Roger and HowBradseesit are on the button here. Go see for yourself; there is no reason to believe these beds will fare any better than existing ones.
@Kancho
Posted on 01-06-2023 15:18 | By morepork
The answer to your question, I believe, is as follows: 1. They will not take ANY cost-cutting or efficiency-improving action as long as they are NOT answerable. (Why would they? The self-extended gravy train is running along nicely, why rock the boat?) 2. They have primed and prepared the electorate for Rate increases, so they might as well capitalize on that. They have demonstrated a fundamental dispassion about Other People's Money and it won't change until they are removed or replaced.
@morepork
Posted on 06-06-2023 18:05 | By Kancho
Of course it was a rhetorical question/ statement really . Most people have worked out the answer. Pity the government put them there and won’t let ratepayers decide anything about spending our money or about anything at all
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