The new Havelock Road.
Have you seen the new-look Havelock Road?
What a difference. After many months of roadworks and diversions, the finished product is looking very good, and travelling along that road is a pleasure rather than a pain.
The road has always been busy and it still is, but it is safer
and easier to navigate now that all work has been completed and the lane markings put down.
The $1.9 million upgrade of the cycle and pedestrian path along the southern side of Havelock Road was part of the Hastings District Council's long-term plan and evolved out of a corridor management plan produced in 2010.
The New Zealand Transport Agency funded 61 per cent of the cost of the work, with the rest coming from the Hastings District Council. And what a good job it is, as well. What I like is that there is also uniformity with a lot of the fences of the houses on that route the same.
