AGENDA
Ordinary meeting of the
Regional Transport Committee
Thursday 26 April 2018
Commencing at 2.00pm
Council Chamber
Civic House
110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Membership: Deputy Mayor Paul Matheson (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor Rachel Reese, Councillors Gaile Noonan (Deputy Chairperson), and Mike Rutledge and Mr Jim Harland
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Regional Transport Committee
26 April 2018
1. Apologies
1.1 An apology has been received from Councillor Matheson
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
3.1 Updates to the Interests Register
3.2 Identify any conflicts of interest in the agenda
Document number M3407
Recommendation
That the Regional Transport Committee
Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Regional Transport Committee, held on 27 November 2017, as a true and correct record.
6. Submission on the Draft Government Policy Statement 2018 on Land Transport
This report was not available when the agenda went to print and will be distributed separately.
Regional Transport Committee
Minutes - 27 November 2017
Minutes of a meeting of the Regional Transport Committee
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Monday 27 November 2017, commencing at 1.34pm
Present: Deputy Mayor P Matheson (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillors G Noonan (Deputy Chairperson), and M Rutledge and Mr J Harland
In Attendance: Councillors S Walker and B McGurk, Group Manager Corporate Services (N Harrison), Acting Group Manager Infrastructure (S Davies), Senior Asset Engineer - Transport and Roading (P Deveraux), Engineering Adviser (S McAuley), External Advisor, Transport (R Palmer), Manager Roading and Utilities (M Parfit), and Governance Adviser (P White),
Apologies: Nil
7. Apologies
8. Confirmation of Order of Business
There were no changes to the order of business.
9. Interests
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
10. Public Forum
4.1 Kate Malcolm
Ms Malcolm spoke about an earlier proposal for a Waimea Express Bus and the combining of the Tasman and Nelson Regional Transport Committees. She spoke from tabled notes (A1870810).
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1 A1870810 Kate Malcolm Public Forum Notes |
4.2 Peter Olorenshaw - Nelson Transport Strategy (Nelsust)
Mr Orolenshaw spoke about the recommendations from the Programme Business Case (the most recent report) of the Nelson Southern Link Investigation and about progressing the Rocks Road Esplanade. His tabled notes (A1872551) and presentation (AA1871673).
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1 A1872585 Peter Olorenshaw Nelsust Public Forum Notes 2 A1871673 Peter Olorenshaw Nelsust Public Forum Presentation |
4.3 Craig Dennis – Progress Nelson Tasman
Mr Dennis asked for support for the Southern Link investigation, and for the Southern Link to be progressed sooner than proposed by NZTA. He tabled his notes (A1872551).
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1 A1872551 Craig Dennis Progress Nelson Tasman Public Forum Notes |
11. Confirmation of Minutes
11.1 19 June 2017
Document number M2693, agenda pages 5 - 6 refer.
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That the Regional Transport Committee Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Regional Transport Committee, held on 19 June 2017, as a true and correct record. |
The Chair referred the members to a tabled letter received from the new Minister for Transport, Hon Phil Twyford (A1872000).
Mr Jim Harland spoke to the tabled update from NZTA (A1871999). Mr Harland noted that the Associate Minister for Transport was also the Minister for Regional Economic Development so there should be strong linkages for regional roading and transportation support.
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1 A1872000 Direction for GPS 2018 - Minister of Transport 2 A1871999 NZTA Update November 2017 |
13. 16/17 Annual Monitoring Report on the Regional Land Transport Plan 2015-2021
Document number R8414, agenda pages 7 - 27 refer.
Senior Asset Engineer – Transport and Roading, Paul Devereux, and Engineering Adviser, Sue McAuley spoke to the report. Ms McAuley answered questions about commuter cyclist counts, and how this influences the RLTP and planning for cycle paths.
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Resolved RTC/2017/011 That the Regional Transport Committee Receives the report 16/17 Annual Monitoring Report on the Regional Land Transport Plan 2015-2021 (R8414) and its attachment (A1814810). |
14. Draft Regional Land Transport Plan Mid Term Review - Statement of Proposal
Document number R8627, agenda pages 28 - 139 refer.
Acting Group Manager Infrastructure, Shane Davies, Senior Asset Engineer - Transport and Roading, Paul Deveraux and External Adviser, Trasnport, Rhys Palmer spoke to the report.
Officers were asked to incorporate the following feedback into the document:
· To update the Forward to note the letter received from the Minister of Transport (A1872000) and the alignment between the RLTP and the direction of the new Government Policy Statement on Land Transport Funding (GPS).
· Pg47 C2 Figure 2
o changes to include travel time as a strategic response
o Add arrow between top box Problem (Constraints on the Transport Network) to Second Top Box Benefit (Communities and key routes become more resilient)
· Pg48 Amend Nelson regional context. Reference to Airport, Port, NMIT, Hospital. The 2013 Google reference is outdated. Use last employment sector growth numbers.
· Pg53 – Aviation sector information for Nelson Airport is out of date.
· Pg59 –Top of the South significant activities – alignment between wording in D1, Table 2, Table 4 and Appendix 5. Southern Link Investigation does need to be classified as significant as Council intends to include in funding submission on NLTP.
· Pg60 Table 3 may need to change to reflect changes in Figure 2 (Pg47) and Appendix 3.
· Pg68 Growth assumptions to be corrected.
· Pg69 – Climate Change and Natural Hazards needs updating – climate change is being addressed now, not in the future. Some references out of date (2009)
· Pg70 Amend Table 5 to reflect changes in Appendix 3
· Pg111 and PgP113 - Appendix 3 - Table 8 and Table 9. Include new Indicators and Targets to address
o (a) Arterial Congestion - suggest using travel time as per Nelson Southern Link Investigation (NSLI).
o (b) “Rat run” traffic volumes - performance measure consistent with design criteria for road.
o (c) Impact that heavy vehicles are having on pavement structures – some indictor of vehicles and ongoing costs
· Statement of Proposal Summary - changes in public transport plan are well highlighted, but need to give more information on all transport projects, not just public transport
· NZTA to supply some statistical data where there is reliance on the out-of-date 2013 census data.
· Pg 73 – concern about zero figures in the table – awaiting data from NZTA.
To ensure that the Regional Land Transport Plan incorporated changes to the Government Policy Statement Land Transport Funding when it was published, members agreed to extend the deliberation meeting date to April or May.
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Resolved RTC/2017/012 That the Regional Transport Committee: Receives the report Draft Regional Land Transport Plan Mid Term Review - Statement of Proposal (R8627) and its attachments (A1846406, A1857239 and A1857355). |
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Resolved RTC/2017/013 That the Regional Transport Committee: Receives the report Draft Regional Land Transport Plan Mid Term Review - Statement of Proposal (R8627) and its attachments (A1846406, A1857239 and A1857355); and Adopts the Draft Regional Land Transport Plan Mid Term Review - Statement of Proposal including the Regional Public Transport Plan (A1846406) and the summary Statement of Proposal (A1857239), incorporating changes noted at the meeting, for the purposes of community consultation and the targeted public transport engagement letter (A1857355); and Delegates any minor word changes to the Chair of the Regional Transport Committee and Her Worship the Mayor. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 3.06pm.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
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