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Road sign maintenance

Road sign maintenance

Signs are a necessary physical resource used to communicate information, and
therefore appropriate provision must be made to enable their erection,
maintenance and removal without undue constraint.
Road signs ( http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz#road)
Request a sign or street furniture ( http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz#request)
Street name signs ( http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz#street)
Amenity signs ( http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz#amenity)

Report a damaged or missing sign

Please contact us if you come across a sign that is:
Brokenor bent.
Vandalised.
Covered in graffiti.
Loose.
Missing.
Causing a safety hazard.
To ensure the problem is fixed as soon as possible, please let us know if the sign is causing a
hazard, if the pole is also missing, and if possible, how the damage occured.

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Road signs
Regulatory signs to advise drivers of restrictions such as speed limit signs, stop signs, and
parking restriction signs
Permanent warning signs to indicate the presence of road hazards such as curve warning
signs, speed hump signs, and "slippery when wet" signs.
Temporary warning signs to indicate hazards of a temporary nature such as road works
signs, loose metal signs, and lane closure signs.

Sign maintenance
Auckland Transport maintains all road signs on the road network. This excludes signs on the
motorway and state highway networks and signs providing direction to private or commercial
locations (e.g. motels, shopsetc).
If a company requests a private sign to be installed, the request must be made in writing and will be
considered in accordance with the Control of Signs Bylaws.
The applicant covers all costs of supply and installation of the sign. If the sign requires maintenance,
this is also the responsibility of the purchaser.

Request for a sign or street furniture

To request a new sign, a sign to be movedor theremoval of a sign e.g. a parking or directional sign,
simply contact us ( http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz/about-us/contact-us/) with the following
information:
The exact location of the sign
Why you believe the restriction is required or requires relocation or removal
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We also investigate requests for new street or roadside furniture (i.e. seats, barriers, bollards, edgepost markers and chevrons).

Reasons why a sign may be moved or removed

Signs may have adverse effects on road-user and pedestrian safety. Too many signs or signs that
are located in inappropriate positions may be distracting or confusing to road-users, thereby
creating a hazard.
Signs positioned too close to roads, intersections, tight curves and corners, or in inappropriate
positions, have the potential to obscure sight lines, road markings, traffic signals, and road-users.

Safety
Safety on and around Auckland roads is important for pedestrians and cyclists as well as drivers.
We spend more than $2 million a year on a variety of road safety projects. These include:
Intersection improvements
Street lighting upgrades.
Road sign upgrades.

Street name signs

Street name signs are provided to indicate the names of streets. Their best use is in providing
assistance to road users who are unfamiliar with the area and are trying to confirm road names
when following a map or route instructions.
No person may:
Wilfully or maliciously destroy, pull down, obliterate, or deface the name of a road, or the
number of any premise.
Give a name to or affix, set up, or paint a name on a road, private road, or public place.

Amenity signs
Amenity signs supplement street name signs to assist in locating a particular facility. The use of
amenity signs is carefully managed to provide additional assistance to road users where warranted,
while avoiding the proliferation of large numbers of signs.
Signs are a necessary physical resource used to communicate information, and therefore
appropriate provision must be made to enable their erection, maintenance and removal without
undue constraint.
A significant issue relating to signs is the potential for signs to have adverse visual effects on
aesthetic and amenity values of a place. The presence of a sign or signs has the potential to reduce
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peoples appreciation of an area.

Objectives
Signs in maritime areas shouldnot adversely affect the natural characteristics or visual
amenity of maritime areas
To limit advertising to a level consistent with the high amenity values in residential zones
Signs in open space zones should not adversely affect the natural and physical characteristics
of the areas nor the visual amenity of adjacent environments.

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