Christchurch’s Sumner Rd to be complete in March
Wrecked in the 2011 earthquake, the Sumner to Lyttelton road in Christchurch is being rebuilt.
For those rebuilding Christchurch’s Sumner Rd, the “easiest” work has caused the most problems.
When work started on the 2.6 kilometre project, which will reconnect Sumner and Lyttelton via a scenic coastal drive, any issues were expected to come from the Sumner end, where a lot of tricky rockfall mitigation work was needed.
By comparison, the work at the Lyttelton end seemed a straightforward rebuild of the road, as rockfall protection work was completed in 2015. But when contractors cleared the fallen vegetation and debris from the tarmac, they found the damage was more extensive than expected.
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