We’re rebalancing our existing street space to make it safer and easier for people to walk, ride, scooter, or use public transport. The Aro Valley connection project will make it easier for more people to bike/scoot into the city from Karori, Highbury, Kelburn and Aro Valley.
Karori is about 5km from the city via Aro Valley, Kelburn and Northland only 4km, and Aro itself is just a 6-10 minute bike ride into the city centre.
Bus and bike improvements along the route will include:
How the work is happening
This project will be delivered in two stages, with the first work starting from April 2023.
We're keen to involve the community as we go, so we will be sending updates when there are opportunities to get involved or have your say.
Got questions about the project? Email arovalleyconnections@wcc.govt.nz
This is a primary route in the bike network plan, and connects to future planned routes to Karori and Thorndon, as well as planned work down Willis Street through Let's Get Wellington Moving. This will also then connect to the Brooklyn uphill bike lane.
We worked with groups in the community and wider stakeholders to design the improvements along the route. We made changes in response to feedback from the community on the preliminary designs. For full plans, artist impressions, parking impacts and more, see the project details.
We took the proposed plans and community feedback through a traffic resolution consultation. In December 2022, Council approved the plans. Work to install the first stage of the route with adaptable materials is expected to begin in March 2023.
Once all the changes are in, we’ll be working hard to gather feedback on how it’s going and improve things such as signs, street markings, and the position of dividers between the bike lanes and traffic.
From June 2022, we began engaging with residents and businesses about planned improvements for people walking, riding or using buses along this route.
Following discussions with groups in the community and stakeholders, we included the following changes in our proposed designs:
As part of our engagement, we’ve worked closely with groups in the community and stakeholders to make changes to the proposed design.
These groups included:
Explore the options that we considered for this project. Full analysis report avaliable.
We're rolling out the changes in two stages to help residents and business time to adjust to changes
Read all the detailed plans, traffic resolution report, project assessments and more