More than $3.7 million is to be spent on roads in Queenstown and Arrowtown this summer - with most of Frankton Rd to be targeted over the coming months.
New Zealand Transport Agency Central Otago area manager John Jarvis told the Otago Daily Times some of the $500,000 of resurfacing work of Frankton Rd carried out by DownerEDI last summer had not survived the winter.
"It's delaminating - it hasn't managed to stick to the existing surface. [The work] is unacceptable ... and it's the contractor's responsibility to fix it up," he said.
Mr Jarvis said only parts of Frankton Rd would need to be resealed but adding to the disruption would be $300,000 of work remaining from last season to be done by Fulton Hogan along Frankton Rd - and another $700,000 of asphalting within the 50kmh area of Frankton Rd, from the Spinnaker Bay luxury condominiums to the Ballarat St roundabout.
Preliminary work has started, with contractors expected to be "into it full swing in November".
"It's a significant amount of work we're trying to organise. We'll get as much as possible done before Christmas, but parts of it will have to be done after the new year."
Meanwhile, Queenstown Lakes District Council contractors have started work to complete the $900,000 Malaghans Rd project, which began in February.
Project manager Steve Hewland said the work was initially scheduled for completion in May, but land negotiation, funding approval and power pole relocation processes had taken longer than expected.
The first phase of the project involved tree trimming, installation of drainage and the building up of shoulders for the widening of the road for the cycle lane.
Stage two comprises pavement reconstruction which would involve taking up the chip seal surface, reshaping the road, stabilising the gravel layers and placing a new seal finish.
Mr Hewland said the council decided to time stage two of Malaghans Rd with "rehabilitation" work in Buckingham St ($510,000), Centennial Ave ($530,000) and Adamson Dr ($815,000), in Arrowtown.
