Post by Brent George on Jun 18, 2024 19:56:49 GMT
Sign of the times: the case of the partially buried road sign
Stuff - Dunedin: 19-June-2024
A road sign has been sealed under a busy state highway, but was it intentional?
This week eagle-eyed residents spied a semi-submerged sign beneath a newly sealed road at Maia on SH88, between Dunedin and Port Chalmers, and it became the talk of a local Facebook page.
The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi coastal Otago senior network manager confirmed the real reason behind the curious case of the road sign.
That involved a contractor using a disused sign to temporarily mask/protect the area around a manhole/service cover, during the recent asphalting of that section of SH88.
While he conceded it was not routine practice, “this does the job, and it is reuse of the old sign”.
Stuff - Dunedin: 19-June-2024
A road sign has been sealed under a busy state highway, but was it intentional?
This week eagle-eyed residents spied a semi-submerged sign beneath a newly sealed road at Maia on SH88, between Dunedin and Port Chalmers, and it became the talk of a local Facebook page.
The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi coastal Otago senior network manager confirmed the real reason behind the curious case of the road sign.
That involved a contractor using a disused sign to temporarily mask/protect the area around a manhole/service cover, during the recent asphalting of that section of SH88.
While he conceded it was not routine practice, “this does the job, and it is reuse of the old sign”.
