Instead, it is developing a plan for a heavy commercial traffic route.
Waitaki District Council roading manager Mike Harrison said the plan was not about excluding a certain type of road user from a space.
"This work is not about detours," Mr Harrison said.
Instead, it was about getting people from "a to b" efficiently and safely, he said.
The council would talk to freight companies about their preferred routes, the limitations and how those impediments could be managed.
It would also look at Waka Kotahi’s network operating framework, that identified several routes important to heavy commercial vehicle users.
In its plan, the council would consider what effects alternative routes would create and how these routes would affect vehicle emissions.
The plan, which Mr Harrison hoped to get under way in February, would be developed by a steering group made up of Cr Kelli Williams, Cr Jeremy Holding and Cr Colin Wollstein, and might include others who had a strategic connection with the heavy commercial vehicle community.
Mr Harrison said the next 12 to 18 months would be spent gathering information to inform the plan, including a questionnaire aimed at heavy vehicle users, which would then be submitted in the council’s 2024 long-term plan and subject to public consultation.
"It’s not going to happen tomorrow.
"The end result might be to stay with what we have got."
The heavy vehicle route plan would be included in an overall roading package that would also review Oamaru’s central parking and state highway intersections.
