3 April 2023
Andrew Lensen
[FYI request #22012 email]
REF: OIA-12165
Dear Andrew
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your email of 6 March 2023 requesting information under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act). I will address each part of your requests in turn below.
Please provide an updated timeline for Phase 1 of the People-friendly City Streets project
of Let’s Get Wellington Moving (see https://lgwm.nz/all-projects/city-streets/).
The following table provides the most updated timeline for the main projects in Phase 1 of the People-
friendly City Streets programme:
Scheduled public
Estimated construction start
Project name
engagement
date*
Johnsonvil e/Ngā Ūranga
Nov/Dec 2022 (Completed)
Q3 2024
Currently open
Bowen Street
Q4 2024
You can provide feedback at
https://www.transportprojects.org.
nz/current/botanic-garden-to-city
John Street to Taranaki
April-May 2023
Q2 2025
Street connection
Featherston Street and
April-May 2023
Q2 2025
South West Te Aro
Miramar to City
April-May 2023
Q3 2024
Berhampore to Newtown
Mid-2023
Q1 2025
*
Construction dates will depend on commercial negotiations, approvals, outcomes of investigations
and public consultations.
Prior to the main projects in Phase 1 commencing, some targeted improvements are being developed
and are scheduled to start in the middle of this year. Targeted improvements are lower cost and easy-
to-implement projects across the city, focusing on walking, cycling and public transport safety.
In particular, please provide an update on the expected deployment of each initiative in
Phase 1, with an itemised list of timeframe for each bus, cycling, and walking change.
The Phase 1 projects are still at an early stage of investigation. As such, an itemised list of timeframes
for each walking, cycling and bus change is not available as options have not yet been selected or
confirmed, and designs have not been prepared to this level of detail.
I am therefore refusing this part of your request under section 18(g)(i) of the Act, as the information
requested is not held by the department or Minister of the Crown or organisation and I have no
grounds for believing that the information is held by another department or Minister of the Crown or
organisation, or by a local authority.
Under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision to refuse
this part of your request. The contact details for the Ombudsman can be located at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
If you would like to discuss this reply with LGWM, please contact Willy Trolove, Senior Governance
Advisor, by email to [email address].
Yours sincerely
Sarah Gardner
Programme Director
