Work will begin today to prepare an Anzac Ave intersection for the commissioning of a set of traffic lights that have been waiting for a green signal for the last three years.
Late last year, final confirmation came the traffic lights at the intersection of Anzac Ave and Frederick St in Dunedin had been given the go-ahead.
The lights had been at the centre of a wrangle between the Dunedin City Council and contractor Doug Hall, now a city councillor, that cost ratepayers $659,000.
In 2011, Mr Hall successfully sought a High Court injunction to stop the lights at the entrance-exit to his adjacent property being turned on, until access to his site was improved.
Late last year, he sold the property to Emerson's Brewery and the council announced the lights would be switched on.
Yesterday, council roading projects engineer Michael Harrison said some of the signals had been removed so ''adjustment work'' on lights and poles, to fit final designs, could be done.
Today, work would begin at the intersection to install new kerbing, new traffic islands and for road marking.
The lights were expected to be operating by the end of the month.
