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A well-planned, efficient
transport system is critical for
economic growth, and for
residents’ quality of life.
The transport system influences where people
choose to live, how easily they can get to and from
work and shops, and how easily they can enjoy
what the city has to offer.
Transport is also vital for business as well-
planned transport system is a significant
competitive advantage. It also encourages energy
efficient forms of transport that have significant
environmental benefits.
Our goal is to manage the
transport network so it is
efficient and sustainable.
Wellington’s transport system is performing
reasonably well. Most residents believe the city
is easy to get around. By national standards, we
are high users of public transport and of other
alternatives to private cars such as walking.
Our safety record in recent years is among the
best of any New Zealand city.
However, the city also faces significant transport
challenges.
Demands on the transport system are increasing
as the city grows and behaviours change. As a
result, the transport network is at or near capacity
at peak times. Cars, buses and cyclists – as well as
parking – are all competing for space on narrow,
hilly streets. In most urban areas, building new
roads isn’t a viable or desirable option, so other
ways need to be found to reduce demand on the
roading system.
There are also environmental reasons for reducing
demand on the transport network. Vehicles contribute
to noise, and water and air pollution. Carbon
emissions from vehicles impact on climate change.
Another challenge is to improve access to our port
and airport to ensure freight and visitors can move
freely across the city.
TRANSPORT PLANNING AND POLICY
We measure performance in our transport
planning work using performance measures
from other transport activities. In relation to
advocacy with central government and other
agencies, we will outline our progress in the
annual report. Over time, we will look to
develop measures and targets for our travel
demand management planning.
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We plan ahead to ensure the
transport network meets the city’s
future needs.
We:
• carry out planning projects aimed at ensuring the
city’s transport network develops in ways that
respond to the challenges outlined above
• work with the Greater Wellington Regional
Council (Greater Wellington), central government
and other agencies to ensure that Wellington’s
transport needs are taken into account in regional
and national transport decisions
• are developing a plan for reducing demand on
our transport networks – this will involve reducing
our own reliance on cars for Council business,
promoting walking and cycling, using traffic
signal enhancements to manage peak-time
congestion, considering whether ‘price’ can be
used to discourage road use, promoting better
urban development, and adding to our bus
priority programme.
In 2008/09 we’ll continue to work on the
Ngauranga Gorge to Wellington Airport study.
Consultation on draft plans and options were
completed in January and the feedback received
will be used to assist the study team in developing
an appropriate plan for the transport corridor to
provide for Wellington’s future transport needs.
We’re proposing research to better
understand Wellington commuters’
current transport choices.
We are planning to undertake a household travel
survey that will identify existing behaviours and
preferences within Wellington communities towards
changing the way they travel. It will help identify
where in the city the greatest gains can be made
in terms of promoting travel by bus, walking and
cycling, and where there simply is no scope for
further travel behaviour change.
This research will be used to inform decisions
leading into next year’s long-term plan on how
to best leverage the Council’s investment and
resources relating to travel demand management
and road space allocation. Specifically, it will guide
how we target the implementation of our cycling
and walking plans that will be introduced in the
coming year.
We’re budgeting $75,000 for this research in
2008/09. We expect this amount to be matched by
Land Transport New Zealand.
OPERATIONAL SPENDING
CAPITAL SPENDING
Activity
User charges and
other revenue
$000
Net expenditure / rates
funding requirement
$000
Expenditure
2008/09
$000
Expenditure
2008/09
$000
2.1.2 Transport planning
(30)
301
331
–
2.3.1 Travel Demand
Management Planning
(80)
266
346
–
Total for 2008/09
(110)
567
677
–
What it will cost
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The city’s transport system should
be safe and efficient.
An efficient vehicle network that allows people and
goods to move easily from one part of the city to
another is important for the city’s economy and for
residents’ quality of life.
It is also important for the environment. While
Wellington’s transport system is generally working
well, we face challenges such as: managing
the transport network to ease congestion; and
minimising harm by making the shift from private
cars to public transport, walking, cycling and other
forms of transport.
We manage the city’s transport
network to achieve these goals.
We:
• maintain the city’s extensive network of roads,
streets, bridges, tunnels, footpaths, roadside
walls, and cycleways.
• manage the transport network, using traffic lights
and a closed circuit camera system to minimise
congestion at peak times
• promote traffic safety by working with
communities to design and implement safety
projects ranging from education and enforcement
to installing new features such as new traffic
lights, pedestrian crossings, roundabouts,
guardrails and traffic calming features.
This year, we’re proposing to
improve access to Hataitai Park.
The Hataitai Park recreational hub can have a
significant impact on traffic flow through Ruahine
Street – one of the city’s major arterial routes to the
southern and eastern suburbs. We’re proposing a
range of improvements that will improve traffic flow
and movements in and out of the park. These will
be introduced progressively and include:
• 2008/09: installation of traffic signals at the
Hataitai Park-Ruahine St intersection to better
manage traffic movements
• 2009/10: improvements to the ‘drop off’ and
‘pick-up’ area within Hataitai Park and widening
of the ‘one way’ internal road to ‘two way’
• 2011/12: construction of additional parking
and an internal access route to the Wellington
Badminton Hall.
We’re budgeting $350,000 capital spending in
2008/09, followed by a further $1.5 million over the
following four years.
We’ll also make improvements
to Waterloo Quay so cruise
ship passengers can be
welcomed properly.
An increasing number of cruise ships are entering
our harbour – 77 arrivals are expected in next
year’s season. Currently, cruise ship passengers
have to disembark at a working port. The planned
improvements will make their arrival more
welcoming and safer and easier for them to walk
into the city.
The improvements include installation of a portal,
or gateway, on the wharf, and improvements to
the walkway along Waterloo Quay to Bunny Street.
A new asphalt footpath will be laid and three
shelters will be built along the walkway where
visitors and passengers can rest. The area around
the shelters will be enhanced with plants and
there will be interpretation panels and maps on
the wharf and at each of the shelters.
We’re budgeting $50,000 for this work and it
is scheduled to be completed by October 2008.
These works are the beginning of a $1.5 million
improvement to Waterloo Quay over the next
three years.
TRANSPORT NETWORKS
Our targets for 2008/09 are:
Vehicle network
• at least 66% (unchanged from our 2007/08
target) of road travel within the city’s
boundary occurs on “smooth” roads
(smoothness is measured in NASRAA counts)
• 80% (unchanged) of residents agree that
Council roads are maintained to a good or
very good standard.
Cycle network
• 75% (unchanged from our 2007/08 target)
of cycleway users are satisfied with the
maintenance of cycleways
• 75% (unchanged) of cycleway users are
satisfied with the safety of cycleways
• 7% (unchanged) of residents who come into
central Wellington (on weekdays) use a cycle.
Passenger transport network
• 40% (a 2% increase from our 2007/08 target)
of city-bound bus-stops have an effective
bus-shelter
• 33% (1% increase from 2007/08) of residents
who come into central Wellington (on
weekdays) use a bus
• 85% (unchanged) of residents surveyed
are satisfied with the reliability of public
transport
• 85% (unchanged) of residents surveyed
are satisfied with the frequency of
public transport.
Pedestrian network
• 95% (unchanged from our 2007/08 target)
of street pavements are within acceptable
defect limits
• 92% (unchanged) of Council roads have a
formed footpath on at least one side
• 15% (1% increase) of residents who come into
central Wellington (on weekdays) walk
• to monitor the number of primary school
children who walk to school.
Ports access
• to continue road improvements along
Waterloo Quay between Bunny and
Hinemoa Streets, including an intersection
at King’s Wharf.
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Network-wide control and management
• 95% (unchanged from our 2007/08 target)
of WCC traffic signs have a condition rating
of 3 or better (measured on a 5-point scale
where 5 is high)
• 85% (unchanged) of residents surveyed
are satisfied with the way that traffic
signals allow them to move around the
city (pedestrians and vehicles)
• no entire intersection signal failures will
last for more than 24 hours.
Transport safety
• all reported road hazards will be made safe within
four hours (unchanged from our 2007/08 target)
• 80% (unchanged) of residents surveyed are satisfied
with street lighting in the central city area and 75%
(unchanged) are satisfied with street lighting in
suburban areas
• 85% (unchanged) of residents surveyed are satisfied
with the safety of the transport network environment
(based on issues such as footpath/road conditions,
lighting, guardrails, behaviour of others etc).
PROPOSED VARIANCES
For the 2008/09 year, we are proposing the following
variances from our 2006-16 long-term plan:
• Pedestrian network footpath renewals – reduce
capital programme by $477,000. This primarily
reflects a change in contract and does not impact
on levels of service.
• Footpath extensions – defer $130,000 until 2009/10
(priority upgrades will not be affected by this deferral).
• Road corridor new walls – reduce capital spending
by $500,000 (this project pays for new retaining walls
when there are slips on previously unrestrained
banks or slopes. The remaining $1.2 million per year is
considered adequate to fund identified priorities).
• Vehicle network new roads – defer capital spending
of $2,350,000 until 2009/10 (this relates to the
construction of Westchester Drive, which is expected to
experience delays due to continuing negotiations and
resource consents).
• Bus priority plan - defer capital spending of
$1,680,000 until 2009/10 (bus priority measures are
confirmed for Dixon and Victoria Streets for 2008/09,
the remaining programme will now occur in 2009/10).
What it will cost
OPERATIONAL SPENDING
CAPITAL SPENDING
Activity
User charges and
other revenue $000
Net expenditure / rates
funding requirement
$000
Expenditure
2008/09
$000
Expenditure
2008/09
$000
2.2.2 Ports access
–
–
–
728
2.4.1 Vehicle network
(1,690)
21,607
23,297
18,137
2.4.2 Cycle network
(6)
54
60
75
2.4.3 Passenger transport
network
(548)
399
947
251
2.4.4 Pedestrian network
(45)
4,473
4,518
4,437
2.4.5 Network-wide
control and management
(950)
3,062
4,012
1,960
2.5.1 Road safety
(1,233)
3,488
4,721
2,488
Total for 2008/09
(4,472)
33,083
37,555
28,076
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We provide CBD car parks so that
people can conveniently access the
central city.
Central city car parking is important for shoppers,
tourists, people working in Wellington, and people
coming in to the city for recreational activities.
Provision of car parking helps make Wellington
a liveable, prosperous city.
We provide more than 3,000 on-street parking
spaces in the central city. To ensure as many people
as possible can access parking spaces and that the
roading network is free of obstructions, we enforce
parking times and impose charges using meters and
pay-and-display machines.
In addition, we provide off-street parking at Clifton
Terrace, the Michael Fowler Centre, and beneath
Civic Square. On the fringes of the central city, we
operate coupon parking zones and resident parking
areas to balance the needs of residents, visitors,
shoppers and commuters.
PARKING
Our targets for 2008/09 are:
• average weekday turnover in Wellington
City Council central city on-street car parks
of 7.5 cars per day, and weekend turnover
of 4.7 cars per day (these targets are
unchanged from 2007/08)
• 90% (unchanged) compliance with
WCC on-street car park time restrictions
and 85% (unchanged) compliance with
payment requirements.
OPERATIONAL SPENDING
CAPITAL SPENDING
Activity
User charges and
other revenue
$000
Net
Surplus
$000
Expenditure
2008/09
$000
Expenditure
2008/09
$000
2.1.1 Car parking
(24,136)
(14,146)
9,990
993
Total for 2008/09
(24,136)
(14,146)
9,990
993
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