Loud, late-night roadworks keeping Wellingtonians awakeSUPPLIED A Mt Cook resident's video of roadworks on Wallace St about 8pm on Sunday. Jackhammers, compactors and concrete cutters were among the heavy machinery used on the Wallace St site in Mt Cook until after 2am, one resident said. ROSS GIBLIN/ FAIRFAX NZ The sound of jack-hammers in the early hours of the morning have kept Wallace St residents in central Wellington awake. As Wallace St is a busy road, residents are used to a certain amount of ambient noise, but not at the level of the loud roadworks, he said. SUPPLIED A photo taken after midnight of a resident speaking to council contractors about loud roadworks on Wallace St.

Source: Stuff July 03, 2017 05:26 UTC