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Letters: SH4 Parapara road due for some NZTA attention

Whanganui Chronicle
4 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM2 mins to read

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The Parapara needs more attention, writes David Bennett. Photo / File

The Parapara needs more attention, writes David Bennett. Photo / File

It was interesting to read in the Chronicle that most of the repairs to SH4 were completed.
[What about the] recently relabelled Auraki Stream Rd Retreat?

It had another name for the last six years, but I suppose a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

It's an example of the Whanganui region losing, in my view, a lot of roading attention when the NZTA office disappeared.

This is a road of national importance as far as we are concerned, it would be interesting to know the details of future upgrades.

This is a washout that happened in June 2015, and has had almost zero attention since then. It's that single lane, difficult to track oncoming traffic section of road just north of the Raukawa camp site.

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The strange thing is that I understand that as far as storm repairs, special funding always exists, so funding can't be the excuse.

I have always referred to SH4 as the "Forgotten Highway", even so one wonders why this repair will have taken over six years, even if the new sign board promise of completion "Spring 21" comes true?

DAVID BENNETT
Whanganui

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Editor's note: According to Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Authority, work has begun on the Auraki Stream Rd Retreat (Chronicle, March 23).

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