Heavy trucks in Mosgiel’s main street are unsafe and destroying "the economic and social heart" of the town.
Mosgiel Taieri Community Board chairman Andrew Simms on Tuesday urged Dunedin city councillors to renew work on a heavy traffic bypass for State Highway 87, or Gordon Rd, as it cuts through town.
The community board’s submission to the Dunedin City Council’s annual plan said sand was trucked through town up to nine times a day, there were increasing volumes of stock trucks from the Maniototo, fully laden logging trucks, fertiliser trucks and massive freight trucks all driving through town "in a terrifying game of roulette" with the people who lived there.
