Minutes of a meeting of the Regional Transport Committee
Te Kōmiti Waka-ā-Rohe
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson on Tuesday 28 September 2021, commencing at 1.38p.m.
Present: Councillor B McGurk (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillors J Edgar and R O'Neill-Stevens and Waka Kotahi Representatives, Mr A James and Ms E Speight (via Zoom)
In Attendance: Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis) and Governance Advisers (E Stephenson and K McLean)
Apologies : Nil
Due to technical difficulties, the meeting was adjourned from 1.39pm until 1.41pm.
Karakia and Mihi Timatanga
1. Apologies
There were no apologies.
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
There was no public forum.
5.1 29 June 2021
Document number M18765, agenda pages 5 - 8 refer.
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That the Regional Transport Committee 1. Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Regional Transport Committee, held on 29 June 2021, as a true and correct record. |
The Chairperson gave a verbal report, noting that funding for the Land Transport Fund showed the benefit of Council’s joint plan with Tasman and Marlborough, with $26.3m for local road maintenance, $5.9m to maintain and bring through improvements signalled in the Regional Land Transport Plan. He acknowledged the contribution of the transport team and Waka Kotahi.
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That the Regional Transport Committee 1. Receives the Chairperson’s verbal report. |
7. 2020/21 Annual Monitoring Report on the Regional Transport Plan 2015-21
Document number R26087, agenda pages 9 - 38 refer.
Manager Transport and Solid Waste, Marg Parfitt, spoke to the report, and answered questions regarding travel time variabilities, traffic monitoring, active transport, road safety, cycle crash data and communication regarding proactive road closures for roadworks.
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That the Regional Transport Committee 1. Receives the report 2020/21 Annual Monitoring Report on the Regional Transport Plan 2015-21 (R26087) and its attachment (A2720457). |
The meeting was adjourned from 2.11pm until 2.25pm.
Document number R26181, agenda pages 39 - 60 refer.
Waka Kotahi Representative, Emma Speight, spoke to the report and its attachment, highlighting investment in transport for Nelson and the region as a whole, key activity class detail, public transport, the national ticketing programme, walking and cycling, the Road to Zero project, the rail network and coastal shipping, the annual monitoring report, the public awareness campaign, partnering with Māori and Pasifika businesses and Te Hiringa o Te Taiao (Waka Kotahi’s resource efficiency strategy). Ms Speight answered questions regarding public consultation, the speed limit register and related rule changes, the resource efficiency strategy and the Nelson Future Access Project.
In response to a question, Waka Kotahi Representative, Andrew James, advised that Whakatū Drive remedial shape correction entailed maintenance work to bring the road back to shape to ensure water drained off properly and that no noise treatments had been budgeted for.
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That the Regional Transport Committee 1. Receives the report Waka Kotahi Update (R26181) and its attachment (A2748059). |
Document number R26022, agenda pages 61 - 64 refer.
A document was tabled (A2756325 - paragraphs 4.8.1 – 4.8.7) relating to Conditions of carriage for pets, that had been inadvertently omitted from the agenda.
Manager Transport and Solid Waste, Marg Parfitt, spoke to the report, noting funding for planned improvements, public transport patronage and funding, free travel for people travelling for COVID-19 vaccinations, and updated the Committee on preparation of the new public transport contract. She answered questions regarding cleaning costs for pet travel, integration with the City Centre development team, consistency between the Procurement Policy for Public Transport and Council’s Procurement Policy and payment of the Living Wage to bus drivers.
A change was made to the recommendation to reflect that the conditions of carriage for pets information was tabled at the meeting.
Karakia Whakamutanga
There being no further business the meeting ended at 3.11pm.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings by resolution on 6 December 2021.
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