Local Government Act 1974

Roads (other than regional roads), service lanes, and access ways - Formation, alteration, stopping, and closing of roads

333: Dividing strips, etc

You could also call this:

"Things councils can put on or near roads to guide traffic or keep people safe"

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The council can build or put things on a road to help guide traffic or warn people. You might see barriers, dividing strips, or sign posts on a road to separate or guide traffic. The council can also plant trees, hedges, lawns, or gardens on a road for various reasons.

The council can build a segregation strip on a road to separate the road from the land next to it. This is done to keep people safe on the road. However, the council must make sure that the segregation strip does not unreasonably block access to the land next to the road.

If a segregation strip is built, the land next to the road is still considered to have a frontage to the road, even if the strip is in the way. The council can change or remove a segregation strip if needed. You can find more information about changes to this rule in the Local Government Amendment Act 1978.

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332: Cycle tracks, or

"Councils can build and control bike paths on roads or their own land."

334: Erection of monuments, etc, and provision of facilities on or under roads, or

"Councils can build safety areas, plant gardens, or put up monuments on roads to help people."

Part 21Roads (other than regional roads), service lanes, and access ways
Formation, alteration, stopping, and closing of roads

333Dividing strips, etc

The council may on any road construct, erect, or grow thereon or remove therefrom, such barriers, dividing strips, guiding or sign posts, pillars or other markers, trees, hedges, lawns, gardens, and other devices as are, in the opinion of the council, necessary for separating, guiding, or warning traffic, intercepting glare, or for any other purpose.
The council may on any road construct for road safety purposes, and alter or remove therefrom, any segregation strip for the purpose of segregating from the roadway any land having a frontage to the road: provided that no such segregation strip shall be constructed or altered so as to unreasonably prevent access to any land having a frontage to the road: provided also that for the purposes of this Act and of any other Act, any land having a frontage to the road before the construction of a segregation strip shall be deemed to continue to have that frontage, notwithstanding the existence of the segregation strip.

Notes

Section 333: inserted, on 1 April 1979, by section 2 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 43).