A confirmed $8.8 million shortfall in funding from the New
Zealand Transport Agency has meant Queenstown Lakes District
Council cannot fund three roading projects.
The approval of more than $2 million of New Zealand Transport
Agency (NZTA) funding for the next stage of Otago Peninsula
cycleway is being hailed as a victory for the whole city.
A $4 million hole in its roading budget means the Dunedin
City Council will be unable to do all the work it had planned
to do on the city's roads in the next three years.
The Otago transport system will receive $280 million of
national funding over the next three financial years,
two-thirds of which is earmarked for the maintenance of
existing roads.
Twelve state highway intersections across the province have come at a social cost of more than $30 million, and resulted in five fatalities and 16 serious injury crashes between 2005 and 2011.
Construction of the replacement Kawarau Falls bridge has not
been included in the 2012-15 regional land transport
programme for Otago, despite a collaborative approach from
Otago and Southland to bring the date forward.
Temporary traffic controls at the intersection of Anzac Ave
and Castle St in Dunedin are being made more robust by the
New Zealand Transport Agency while it discusses permanent
options with the Dunedin City Council.
New Zealand Transport Agency roading and transport
allocations to the Queenstown Lakes District Council have
fallen about $9 million short of the council's request for
the next three years.
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has scrapped plans to
build a four-lane expressway from Otaki to Levin in favour of
upgrading the existing highway.
