WC 324: Road improvements

Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:

• road realignment, re-grading or widening, including seal widening

• improvements to intersections

• passing lanes or slow vehicle bays

• safe system infrastructure, such as median and side barriers, roundabouts and speed management devices

• approaches to bridge replacements costing in excess of $50,000

• retaining structures, culverts and replacement cattle stop

• stock underpasses

• all traffic signs, pavement markings, traffic signals, lighting (including under-grounding), etc, necessary to bring the improved facility into service

• reinstatement of footpaths and vehicular crossings that are part of the improvement project (reinstatement is to be to the original standards only – no additional improvements are eligible for funding assistance)

• discharge of street water by means of pipes or open drains into natural watercourses, where no artificial drainage system exists, or into artificial drainage systems (sumps, mains or open drains), on, adjacent to or across from the road, and

• for local road projects property purchase costs less than $500,000.

You can discuss with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.

Note that any application for improvements which will increase the level of service (eg pavement smoothing) must provide evidence of substantive benefits.

Work category 324 excludes:

• a new cattle stop where none previously existed
• pavement rehabilitations due to high maintenance costs - these are funded under work category 214: Sealed road pavement rehabilitation
• traffic services renewals – these are funded under work category 222: Traffic services renewals.