Temporary safety improvements were installed at the Norwood Street and Fisher Avenue intersection in 2021. We’re now looking at making these permanent.

• The flexible bollards and planter boxes are looking a bit tired, and we have an opportunity to replace them using permanent concrete buildouts and planting.
• Within the kerb buildout, we’re planning low shrubs to beautify the area while maintaining visibility for all users of the intersection.
• We’ll narrow the crossing distance to make it safer to cross and extend the kerb buildouts to make pedestrians more visible on Norwood Street.

There’ll also be minor stormwater improvements to help with water pooling on Fisher Avenue.

There will be no changes to parking or footpath widths.

What's there now?

In 2021, we installed two new crossing points on Norwood Street, on either side of Fisher Avenue through New Zealand Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets for People programme (and funding stream). We also put no stopping lines around the intersection. We narrowed the intersection with planter boxes and flexible delineators as per Innovating Streets for People’s mantra of making streets safer using temporary measures.