Another set of traffic lights is being investigated for Oamaru by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA)This time, the NZTA is looking at the Severn St-Cross St intersection and whether traffic lights are needed to improve traffic and pedestrian safety.
NZTA Otago-Southland operations manager Murray Clarke said this week the need for traffic lights at the intersection was being investigated and consultation would be held, including with schools.
"If a decision is made to install them, that would not take place until the next financial year," he said.
It would be the sixth set of intersection traffic lights to be installed in Oamaru since last year.
Five are in operation as part of the $3.2 million safety upgrade of State Highway 1 through central Oamaru and a set of pedestrian crossing lights was recently activated on SH1 at the Junction corner.
A few years ago, a pedestrian crossing was put in near the Cross St-Severn St intersection.
Mr Clarke said the intersection had been an issue for at least 20 years and there had been several accidents there.
It was difficult for pedestrians going to the swimming pool, Oamaru gardens, skateboard park and Mitre 10.
Traffic used it as a route to Weston and tourists to get to the Oamaru Top 10 Holiday Park.
Mr Clarke emphasised the lights were "very much a proposal at this stage".
