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Dominion Road - Detailed Design Begins
Monday 11 July
Dominion Road - Detailed Design Begins
Auckland Transport has begun working with landowners, businesses and the Albert-Eden Local Board on a scheme to reduce traffic congestion on Dominion Rd.
Dominion Rd is one of the busiest arterial routes in the country, carrying more than 25,000 vehicles every day.
Over the years a number of schemes have been proposed, including 24 hour bus-lanes running to and from the central city (known as a “rapid transit system”). However, following a review by Auckland Transport and consideration of feedback from community consultation, those plans have been scaled back.
Auckland Transport has agreed to extend bus-lanes around the Mt Roskill Village Centre, and Balmoral Village, and in the area Mt Roskill bound through to Valley Rd. These will operate only at peak times. On-street parking, which was a critical issue for businesses and residents, will be retained, with the bus-lanes utilised for parking off-peak.
Cycleways will be included where room allows. The work will also see significant maintenance of the road surface.
More details will follow as the project design is developed in consultation with business, other stakeholders and the Albert-Eden Local Board.
Auckland Councillor and Auckland Transport Board member Christine Fletcher says the principles agreed by Auckland Transport will ensure a system that works for residents, business and commuters alike.
She also says the lifting of designations along the route will give long awaited certainty to landowners. “This is a great example of working in partnership, listening to the community we serve and re-evaluating things accordingly,” she says.
Mrs Fletcher is also deputy chair of the Auckland Council’s transport committee.
Albert-Eden Local Board member and the Board’s transport spokesperson, Tim Woolfield, is also delighted that progress is being made.
“It gives certainty to property owners over what will, and will not, happen for the first time in years,” he says. “I am pleased that a particular focus is on the retention of on-street parking.
The chair of the Albert-Eden Local Board, Peter Haynes, says the board looks forward to working with Auckland Transport on fine-tuning the proposals.
Once designs and final budgets are agreed work will start in 2012.
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