Item 8.Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd and Brooklyn Rd 9 April 2024 Redacted.pdf

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Re: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd and Brooklyn Road
From Councillor Tim Brown <[email address]>
Date Tue 09/04/2024 11:26
To
William Melville <[email address]>; Soon Teck Kong <[email address]>; Councillor
Sarah Free <[email address]>
Cc
Matthijs van Dijk <[email address]>; Zack Moodie <[email address]>; Brad
Singh <[email address]>; Paul Andrews <[email address]>
Thanks Will
I biked up there on Saturday morning and conﬁrm the desirability of keeping cars to a modest speed
From: Wil iam Melvil e
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 10:20 AM
To: Council or Tim Brown ; Soon Teck Kong ; Council or Sarah Free
Cc: Matthijs van Dijk ; Zack Moodie ; Brad Singh ; Paul Andrews
Subject: RE: Speed bumps Hawkins Hil  Rd and Brooklyn Road
Kia ora Council or Brown,
Apologies for the delay in responding to this email.
Hawkins Hil  Right of Way is not part of the legal road corridor and there have been a few instances of
residents being directed to our Transport and Infrastructure team rather than Parks Sport and Recreation who
led the recently completed Minor Safety and Pavement Improvement project on behalf of Council.
The Minor Safety and Pavement Improvement project for Hawkins Hil  Right of Way (RoW) was undertaken
fol owing a resolution by the City Strategy Committee on 22 November 2018. After funding was approved
through the 2021 LTP work started in early 2022 culminating in the instal ation of speed humps on the RoW in
early March of this year.
The RoW services over 300 vehicles per day including residents who have a legal right to use Hawkins Hil  Right
of Way under easement and visitors to Te Kopahou and Waimapihi Reserves and the Brooklyn Wind Turbine.
The width of the road and level of investment agreed to by the City Strategy Committee means that there is no
footpath provision on the RoW which is used regularly by runners, cyclists and walkers to visit the turbine and
reserves beyond.
Due to site and ﬁnancial constraints, under the advice independent traﬃc engineers that was reviewed
Councils Network and Transport team, speed advisory and shared space signs were put up on the RoW along
with the instal ation of 12 speed humps. Their purpose is to make drivers aware of other users, manage speed
on the RoW and help contribute towards our health and Safety obligations as a land manager.
I have attached a detailed response from Paul Andrews to Council ors sent in February before the work started
which includes more detail on the speed humps and future private landowner contributions towards
maintenance on the RoW now the work has been completed.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Ngā mihi nui,
Will Melville
Kaiwhakahaere Rauemi | Operations Manager | Parks, Sport & Recreation | Wel ington City Council
M 021 227 8220
E wil iam.melvil [email address] | W Wel ington.govt.nz |
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From: Councillor Tim Brown
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 6:26 PM
To: Soon Teck Kong ; Councillor Sarah Free
Cc: Matthijs van Dijk ; William Melville ; Zack Moodie ; Brad Singh
Subject: Re: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd and Brooklyn Road
Many thanks Soon Kong
That is much appreciated
Tim
From: Soon Teck Kong <[email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 6:14 PM
To: Councillor Sarah Free <[email address]>; Councillor Tim Brown <[email address]>
Cc: Matthijs van Dijk <[email address]>; William Melville <[email address]>; Zack
Moodie <[email address]>; Br ad Singh <[email address]>
Subject: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd and Brooklyn Road
Dear Councillors Free and Brown,
Thank you for your email and responses t s7(2)(a)
I have cc’ed several oﬃcers to collate the information on the questions raised by s7(2)(a) - Hawkins Hill Road
and Brooklyn Road.
Matthijs – Would you please provide the information on the questions regarding Brooklyn Road six speed
humps highlighted below.
Wil and Zack – Would you please collate the assessment carried out on the installation of 12 speed humps
along Hawkins Hill Road. And also why speed humps are not installed along Ashton Fitchett Dr - Zack?
I will provide you a response once our oﬃcers have provided their information on s7(2)(a) questions.
Kind regards,
Soon Kong
From: Councillor Sarah Free <[email address]>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 1:58 PM
To: Councillor Tim Brown <[email address]>
Cc: Soon Teck Kong <[email address]>; BUS: Elected members queries
<[email address]>
Subject: Re: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd
Hi Tim, the Regs committee don’t have to approve traﬃc safety measures, that sits in the operational space.
I will ask one of the oﬃcers to respond as to the number and siting of the speed humps, and have copied Soon
Teck Kong in accordingly.
Cheers,
Sarah
Councillor Sarah Free
Motukairangi Eastern Ward Councillor
Chair, Regulatory Processes Committee
Wellington City Council
M 022 121 6412
E [email address] |
From: Councillor Tim Brown <[email address]>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 12:26:02 PM
To: Councillor Sarah Free <[email address]>
Subject: Fw: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd
Sarah
Will the Regs Committee have signed oﬀ the installation of speed bumps on Hawkins Hill (up to and
beyond the Brooklyn wind turbine)

Or does Regs set the speed and then its up to staﬀ to decide how to enforce that limit?
Thanks
Tim
From:s7(2)(a)
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 10:13 AM
To: Councillor Tim Brown <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd
Tim
No response received from council oﬃcers and by the time they get round to it the work will no doubt be
completed.
Unfortunately I don't share your experience in logic being applied by WCC roading staﬀ. I have raised my
concerns about their decision making process with the Ombudsman oﬃce who are currently investigating my
complaint.
Surely "common sense" says twelve speed humps is a complete overkill. I would expect elected councillors
have a responsibility to rate payers to stop excessive spending on this type of work given central governments
clear messaging of no more speed humps.
I simply can't see what the problem is on this short piece of road that determined twelve speed humps were
needed. Where is the evidence of anyone being hit by a car, the number of individual complaints received and
alternate options considered.
On a similar note, it is unbelievable that WCC councillors recently signed oﬀ on the installation of six speed
humps on Brooklyn Rd - a major arterial road thoroughfare used by thousands each day and also a similar
number on Ohiro Rd next to Central Park. None of this makes logical sense to me, will make the road any safer
or the cost in this current constrained environment justiﬁed.
I have not met anyone in my Brooklyn community who agrees any of this work is necessary. It is little wonder
trust in elected councillors and council oﬃcers is at such a low ebb.
s7(2)(a)
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, 4:28 pm Councillor Tim Brown, <[email address]> wrote:
s7(2)(a)
I agree, 12 seems nuts
But I have found that the road team do apply solid logic and are cost constrained
So I will withhold judgement on the cost/beneﬁt until I see their response
Tim
PS. the diﬀerence between road and water spending is that with the former we can get the facts,
with the latter no so much. The latest data we have is that it's costing $5,000 to ﬁx each leak and
no one in Council can work out how it went from $1500 to $5000 in a little over 3 years
s7(2)(a)
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 4:24 PM
To: Councillor Tim Brown <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd
Hi Tim
Thanks for your email.
Whilst you may use this road for personal use, as do I, I ﬁnd it hard to believe the cost of TWELVE speed
humps on such a short and winding road, closed to the public at night can possibly be justiﬁed in this
current ﬁnancial environment. It seems a total overkill.
I note there is plenty of oﬀ road cycle tracks and walkways in this area to use instead of the road.
How is this spend possibly justiﬁed to continue ahead of water infrastructure repairs and maintenance
where every dollar counts.
Yours sincerely
s7(2)(a)
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, 3:57 pm Councillor Tim Brown, <[email address]> wrote:
Apologies s7(2)(a)
We received another similar inquiry about the time you must have made yours and it seems we
probably only responded to the other one
I have CC-d our Queries Team so they can address your concerns

I've also CC-d your ward Councillor who is interested in this matter
My own interest is as someone who regularly bikes up there and who consequently appreciates
the beneﬁt of speed management measures.
Tim
From:s7(2)(a)
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 12:54 PM
To: DL: Councillors <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Speed bumps Hawkins Hill Rd
Good afternoon
On 24 February 2024 I sent an email to you all about the wasteful spending on TWELVE speed humps on
Hawkins Hill road that appear to have more priority than ﬁxing our failing water network.
Since then I have received no acknowledgement nor a response from any of the elected Councillors.
It's unprofessional that not one of you, who are supposedly governing our city has responded or even
bothered to acknowledge the email.
When can I expect a response to the questions asked?
Yours sincerely
s7(2)(a)
On Sat, 24 Feb 2024, 2:18 pms7(2)(a)
wrote:
Dear Councillors
I am dumbfounded that the WCC has decided to install TWELVE speed bumps at a cost that won't be
disclosed because of commercial sensitivity.
This is a road to the Brooklyn wind turbine, a Wellington icon. The road is closed overnight accessible
only to residents via combination.
Can you explain to me what the issue with this narrow relatively short road is that warrants TWELVE
speed humps
As a local resident who uses the road occasionally to take visitors to the wind turbine, I have never
seen any of the small number of vehicles that use it speeding. It is a quiet road, unlike Ashton Fitchett
Drive where I live, where cars speed up and down constantly.
I have previously asked for speed bumps to be installed in our road but the WCC has refused.
So what makes such a quiet road deserving of TWELVE speed humps? It seems such a complete
overkill and waste of rate payer money ahead of ﬁxing broken water pipes which must be higher
priority than this project.
Where is your oversight of Council Oﬃcer's ﬁnancial spending particulary when the landscape has
moved on from when the decision to do this work was made.
I look forward to a response.
Yours sincerely
s7(2)(a)