Preparing for the future – more choice for more people
The changes are preparing these streets for the future by making it safer and easier to walk, ride a bike/scooter and catch the bus.
From the end of 2021, we began engaging with residents and businesses about planned bus and bike improvements along this route.
Following discussions with groups in the community and stakeholders, we changed the initial designs as below:
To allow for business parking outside of commuter hours, we’ve made the following changes:
- On Tinakori Road from the Glenmore Street crossing to Botanic Garden to St Mary’s Street, the bus lane has been changed from full time to commuter hours only (between 7am-9am)
- On Bowen Street near the intersection of Tinakori Road before Sydney Street West, the clearway was proposed to be extended to full-time, but this will remain at commuter hours only (between 7am-9am)
- Changing the Thorndon Residents parking zone boundary to include Patanga Crescent and St Mary Street.
- Extending the bus stop in the westerly direction on Tinakori Road and removing 1 P120 parking space, and keeping 2 P10 parking spaces outside the antique shop.
- Relocating taxi stands from Whitmore Street to Stout Street.
- Installing a mobility parking space on Bowen Street at The Terrace intersection.
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:
- Accessibility community
- Businesses along the route
- Cycle Wellington
- Fire and Emergency New Zealand
- Living Streets Aotearoa
- Metlink
- Ministry of Education
- NZ Bus
- Taxi companies
- Thorndon Residents Association
- Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Evaluating the changes
Once the changes are in, we’ll be monitoring and evaluating community feedback, local economic data, travel times for buses and traffic and use of short-term parking and loading zones.
Longer term, we’ll be tracking things like numbers of people riding bikes and taking the bus, diversity of people on bikes (age and gender), whether more people think the changes are positive, and kilometres of infrastructure installed per year and how long it takes to get things in.
You can read the full set of plans and traffic resolution
Find out more and read the full set of plans and traffic resolution for the Botanic Garden ki Paekākā to city project.
Webinars
In this webinar (recorded on 15 March) you can meet the team and learn about important street changes that are part of the city's goal to be a net zero carbon capital by 2050. We talk you through two projects - Newtown to the city and the Botanic Garden ki Paekākā to the city. The Council's City Design Manager, Vida Christeller, and project lead Renee Corlett share information about the designs and when the changes will happen. The webinar includes a question and answer session, how you can provide feedback on the street changes once they're made and how to keep in contact with the project team.
In this webinar (recorded on 2 June) we talk you through the new bus stop platforms for the Newtown to the city and the Botanic Garden ki Paekākā to the city projects. The webinar includes a question and answer session with panellists from Wellington City Council, Waka Kotahi, Metlink, Zicla and International Design for All.
Tinakori Road
A new bus stop platform and uphill bike lane on Tinakori Road. View towards the Botanic Garden Ki Paekākā entrance.
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Bowen Street
Shared downhill bike and bus lane and a separated uphill bike lane on Bowen Street (at the corner of Ballantrae Street). View toward the city.
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Bowen Street
Separated uphill bike lane with a shared bike and bus lane downhill on Bowen Street (near The Terrace). View towards Tinakori Road and the Botanic Garden ki Paekākā.
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Whitmore Street
Separated bike lanes on both sides of the road on Whitmore Street (near Stout Street). View towards the waterfront.
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Supporting documents
Look at the plans, parking management plans, detailed information on the options we considered and more.
Read moreEvaluating the changes
We'll be monitoring and evaluating the street changes alongside community feedback.
Read moreThe options we considered
We developed a list of possible options that could improve this route. We looked at things from a range of perspectives.
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