Part 3 – Road Works

3.12    Vehicle Crossing

3.12.3    Rural and Rural-Residential Vehicle Crossings

Vehicle crossings in rural and rural-residential areas shall be constructed to the same standard as the road they come off.  Design shall be as per:

• Drawing DG 307 (District Roads); or:
• Diagrams C, D, or E (State Highways) as required by the table below:

*Equivalent car movements per day.  This is calculated either as an average or as weekly average whichever is greater, to cater for the seasonal peaks.

Minimum sight distance shall be in accordance with Table 3-A.

Access drives shall be formed and maintained so as to adequately control stormwater and to prevent materials such as mud, stones, chip gravel or stock effluent being carried onto public road.

Where a large vehicle entrance is proposed off a roadway with a carriageway width of 6 metres or less then carriageway widening will be required as part of the development. The widening is required to provide a total carriageway width of 6 metres for a length of 15 metres.  5:1 tapering shall then be used to terminate back to the existing edge of seal.

Note: For further information regarding road widening see MPDC Infrastructure Code of Practice.

Separation distances between rural entranceways and to intersections are to be as shown in Tables 3-B and 3-C.

No new entrances shall be located closer than 30 metres from a rail crossing without the approval of the NZ Railways Corporation.

Table 3-A: Minimum Sight Distance Standards at Vehicle Crossings (All Zones)

Table 3-B: Minimum vehicle crossing separation standards

Table 3-C: Standards for minimum separation between vehicle crossings and intersections