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Roads & footpaths

Gisborne District Council is responsible for all the district's public roads (with the exception of state highways). This includes the maintenance of sealed and unsealed roads, bridges, streetlights, footpaths, road marking, traffic signals, signs, street cleaning, walkways and cycleways, roadside mowing and vegetation control.

Help us to keep your roads and footpaths safe. We maintain them for the benefit of all road users including pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.

Road works

To keep our roads safe and maintained, we sometimes need to rebuild support layers (pavement) and the surface (chip seal or asphalt). Resurfacing involves spreading stone chip over a layer of hot sprayed bitumen. The new seal can take some time to settle down and extra care is required due to loose chip and sticky bitumen.

Our contractors take every precaution to avoid splashing bitumen, but if you get any small spots on your vehicle, it can be removed with kerosene or baby oil. If your vehicle gets splashed with cement, please wash it off as soon as possible.

Reporting problems

Tell us about any problems with our roads or footpaths.
You can contact us 24 hours 7 days a week on (06) 867 2049 or fill in an eFix form

State highway roads are not maintained by Council.
Please contact NZ Transport Authority. Their Gisborne office is Opus Consultants phone (06) 868 5199 or 027 446 0903 (24hrs / 7days a week)