State Highways around Rotorua will get a $1 million safety boost this month.
Targeted safety upgrades designed to reduce the risk of death and serious injury crashes are being installed around the region by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
The work is being carried out in response to the Government's Safer Journeys' strategy to reduce death and serious injury crashes on New Zealand roads.
The Transport Agency's Bay of Plenty highways manager Niclas Johansson said the changes are designed to make the roads and roadsides more forgiving reducing the impact if a driver makes a mistake and crashes.
The $1.02 million Rotorua investment includes new signs and road markings which make a more readable road and alert drivers to what is ahead and upgrades to the high-risk State Highway 5/ Tutukau Road intersection which will be widened and upgraded with a new right-turn bay.