Feedback on Room to Move in the City Centre
This is a summary of feedback to Auckland Transport's draft proposals to inform the development of Room to Move - a parking management plan for the city centre.
Key points made:
With a mandate to support business, we have been concerned with decisions that have been made access for customers and suppliers difficult. With this in mind, we stress the following key principles:
- Needs for all users must be considered in a fair and balanced way.
- Evaluation of results is essential and must be used to inform future decisions, for example relating to servicing, loading, pick up and drop offs that are problematic in mid-town.
We emphasised the need for AT to:
- Continue to look at innovation to better support kerbside management. This includes the use of dynamic signage – better enabling flexible kerbside use that can be very responsive to changing needs; parcel lockers and use of off-street parking spaces for different use to reduce demand on the kerbside.
- Ongoing evaluation and planning for kerbside activity on a 24/7 basis, adjusting use as required.
- Note the importance of the use of these insights (including needs/land use assessment) gathered from this project to inform wider city centre network and circulation planning.
Additional opportunities we would like AT to investigate include:
Other locations not identified in the plan requested to be investigated:
Including additional PUDO (Pick Up Drop Off) locations in the Aotea Arts Quarter and Wynyard Quarter; Albert Street to maximise loading opportunities; Lorne Street (outside the library) and Airedale Street.
Increase capacity for kerbside use by considering the use of bus stops for alternative uses at times when they are not in service for bus use & kerb space located within bus lanes in the city centre.
We also provided specific feedback on the following AT proposals:
- Preventing parking on Wyndham Street footpath
- Lorne Street: Improve pedestrian space and loading opportunities
- Manage Elliott Street
- Vulcan Lane: Investigate installing barriers/bollards
- New loading zones on Mayoral Drive, subject to bus requirements
- Trial double stack/scooter parking
- Sale Street
- Loading Zone on Hobson Street
- Wakefield Street
- New evening taxi stand for Arts Quarter
