Atkinson Road/daffodil Street Intersection

Sandra from Titirangi

I'm asking for support from people who regularly use or encounter this intersection, to please email or call Auckland Transport and ask them to urgently remove the car park markings they have just put in (last week) diagonally opposite Daffodil Street. I have been requesting for a few years now, that they extend the 3 yellow lines in front of the bus stop, to match the 7 yellow line before the bus stop, so that they extend past the turning point of this intersection, to prevent cars parking there.
If a car is parked there, drivers making a right turn from Daffodil are forced into the middle of the road or into the oncoming traffic lane, depending on size of vehicle. If a car is turning right from Atkinson into Daffodil, and has to stop and wait for the traffic coming down from the village, the flow of traffic is then blocked as cars can't pass in the inside of the turning vehicle if a car has parked there. The traffic soon starts to back up as everyone has to wait for that car to turn into Daffodil. This is a huge problem and inconvenience around school drop off and pick up times as I'm sure some of you know! I have 2 learner driver daughters using this intersection daily and they (and plenty of other people I've spoken to) have experienced 'close calls' and 'abuse' as there is "nowhere to go". Last year, after speaking to Duncan Campbell of AT, he said he'd seen the intersection and recommends and agrees that the yellow lines should extend past the intersection. Instead, we now have a car park. I contacted him today about it and he said it always was a car park so effectively, nothing's changed. I think if a few more people expressed their concern for the safety of anyone using this intersection and their annoyance at the extensive delays a parked car causes if another is turning, AT might remove the new white lines and put in the yellow lines needed past the bus stop. I was also trying to get the foliage that extends out to the pavement, trimmed back hard, to give a few more meters of visual access to a driver sitting on Daffodil street wanting to make a right hand turn onto Atkinson. That person is going from a stop start.......and cars come flying around the bend doing 50kph. In seconds they are up your ar** tooting like you deliberately pulled out in front of them. Reality is, you can't see them coming. This is very unnerving for a learner driver. Any support, by expressing your shared concerns to Auckland Transport to urge them to take action and make this intersection safer, would be greatly appreciated. You can use their web site to log a complaint via email, or call them on 09 3553553 (ask to speak to Duncan Campbell) or text or call Amirul on 021535814. I need more people to bring AT's awareness up to a point that they might just take action! Thanks .