Roading maintenance and Kent/Cambridge bike lanes
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From: Mike
Dear Wellington City Council,
Some of our main arterial routes in the city are showing signs of wear and lack of maintenance. I would like to know the WCC's schedule for resealing the following roads which are a patchwork of repairs, old painted over road markings and very uneven surfaces:
1. Willis Street from the bypass to Boulcott Street.
2. Taranaki Street - all
3. Vivian Street - all
4. The footpaths along Cuba Street, specifically from Ghuznee Street to Vivian St.
In addition, I would like to know if the council has done any traffic impact analysis on the traffic flows along Kent and Cambridge Terrace since the poorly designed bike lanes have been introduced. Traffic congestion is worse, especially for those turning left onto Majoribanks Street from Kent Terrace. Please send me data from before/after the bike lanes were put in place. Also, are the cheap looking 'parks' now blocking the turn roads between Kent and Cambridge permanent fixtures?
Yours faithfully,
Mike
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Wellington City Council
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From: Mike <[FOI #25219 email]>
Sent: Monday, 18 December 2023 10:49 am
To: BUS: Assurance <[Wellington City Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Roading maintenance and Kent/Cambridge bike lanes
Dear Wellington City Council,
Some of our main arterial routes in the city are showing signs of wear and lack of maintenance. I would like to know the WCC's schedule for resealing the following roads which are a patchwork of repairs, old painted over road markings and very uneven surfaces:
1. Willis Street from the bypass to Boulcott Street.
2. Taranaki Street - all
3. Vivian Street - all
4. The footpaths along Cuba Street, specifically from Ghuznee Street to Vivian St.
In addition, I would like to know if the council has done any traffic impact analysis on the traffic flows along Kent and Cambridge Terrace since the poorly designed bike lanes have been introduced. Traffic congestion is worse, especially for those turning left onto Majoribanks Street from Kent Terrace. Please send me data from before/after the bike lanes were put in place. Also, are the cheap looking 'parks' now blocking the turn roads between Kent and Cambridge permanent fixtures?
Yours faithfully,
Mike
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IRC 5817 Correspondence from Wellington City Council.pdf
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Kent Cambridge Terrace Traffic Modeling Results RELEASE.pdf
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Tēnā koe Mike
Please find attached correspondence from Wellington City Council.
Nga mihi
Danika Morris-Brown
Senior Advisor Official Information
Ara Whaimana | Strategy and Governance
Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Wellington City Council
E [1][email address] | W [2]wellington.govt.nz
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Chris McCashin left an annotation ()
Good luck Mike!! I can probably answer these for you.
Questions 1 - 4 - No schedule as we don’t budget for any of the services we are supposed to provide. We were also relying on handouts from NZTA following our Gerry mandered reports to get additional funding for cycleways that would have paid for some of this.
Re Traffic Flows on Kent Terrace - our traffic analysis reports completed were done to push this project through without any consultation. Now that this project has been completed causing countless congestion issues our job here is done. No analysis going forward will be completed so us as the ratepayer just need to stop asking questions. And to top this off - the reports (if they do provide them) are likely to not be worth the paper they are written on as they were never going to be done properly when you just need something to support more spending on wasteful projects. I suspect the answers will be along these lines. And the cheap looking parks are likely to remain permanent fixtures for the business owners and employees that are put out of business so they can have lunch and look at where the once worked before they were put out of business.
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