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TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS BOARD OF INQUIRY Basin Bridge Proposal HEARING at BASIN RESERVE, MT COOK, WELLINGTON on 21 May 2014 BOARD OF INQUIRY: Retired Environment and District Court Judge Gordon Whiting (Chairperson) James Baines (Board Member) David Collins (Board Member) David McMahon (Board Member) Page 7243 APPEARANCES <DUNCAN BRUTTON KENDERDINE, on former oath [10.28 am] .... 7244 <EXAMINATION BY MR CAMERON 5 CONTINUING [10.31 am] ............................................................. 7246 <CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MS JONES [12.33 pm] ................. 7284 <RE-EXAMINATION BY MR CAMERON [2.52 pm] .................. 7310 <THE WITNESS WITHDREW [4.49 pm] ....................................... 7350 10 Basin Reserve, Wellington 21.05.14 Page 7244 [10.27 am] CHAIRPERSON: Yes, good morning everybody. For those who have been kept waiting, we had a request to delay proceedings while some parties 5 tried to reach agreement on matters and so we are always anxious for parties to reach agreement, if they can. MR CAMERON: If I can say, I am obliged to the Board and I am obliged to those who have been kept waiting as well. 10 CHAIRPERSON: Yes. Thank you, Mr Cameron. Now, Mr Cameron? MR CAMERON: Thank you, sir. 15 CHAIRPERSON: Yes, welcome back, Mr Kenderdine. <DUNCAN BRUTTON KENDERDINE, on former oath [10.28 am] MR KENDERDINE: Thank you, your Honour. 20 MR CAMERON: Now I think Mr Kenderdine, you have got to the point in the reading of your supplementary statement where you had read to the end of part nine - - - 25 MR KENDERDINE: We did skip part seven for – which all be it would be - - - MR CAMERON: Yes. 30 MR KENDERDINE: - - - reasonably brief, but maybe pertinent - - - MR CAMERON: Perhaps you can go back to part seven - - - CHAIRPERSON: Well, I do not think there is a need for that is there? 35 MR CAMERON: No, we agreed that that can be taken as read. CHAIRPERSON: Yes. 40 MR KENDERDINE: Okay. MR CAMERON: We agreed that that can be taken as read. CHAIRPERSON: So it is just relating to conditions? 45 MR CAMERON: Yes. Mr Kenderdine and - - - Basin Reserve, Wellington 21.05.14 Page 7245 MR BAINES: I brought a wrong book. Can I just pop out? CHAIRPERSON: Sorry, Mr Baines has brought his wrong book. 5 MR BAINES: I brought the wrong book with me. CHAIRPERSON: You pop out and get it, - - - 10 MR..........: The “other” red and black book. CHAIRPERSON: - - - but do not pinch my one this time. He had – I lost one of mine for three weeks I hunted for it, I hunted all through home and blamed my wife for pinching it, went into my chambers at Auckland, 15 hunted through my office, looked in every bag that I had, it was in his box. MR BAINES: Well, I am sorry wait until question time tomorrow. 20 CHAIRPERSON: So that is what you get for leaving - - - MR BAINES: Can I just go and get my correct book? CHAIRPERSON: Yes, and that is not my one, I hope. 25 MR CAMERON: Ms Wedde has an interesting story to tell about where she left her books here on one occasion. They did end up in the bus terminus at Lyall Bay. 30 CHAIRPERSON: Is that right? MR CAMERON: But it was found. So yes, it is a problem, well, it can be. CHAIRPERSON: Yes. Many a confidential file has fallen off a truck. 35 [10.30 am] MR CAMERON: Indeed. sir, while Mr Baines is retrieving his book, I intend to have Mr Kenderdine complete the reading of his evidence. 40 CHAIRPERSON: Yes. MR CAMERON: And then I am going to re-examine him in the ordinary course, after both Ms Jones and after the completion of all cross- 45 examination, rather than doing it piece-meal. Basin Reserve, Wellington 21.05.14 Page 7246 CHAIRPERSON: Yes, thank you. I think Ms Jones would appreciate that too. MR CAMERON: I am sure she would, Sir, because it could take some time to work through the other issues. 5 MR BAINES: Thank you very much. MR CAMERON: No. Not at all. Right. 10 CHAIRPERSON: Yes. MR CAMERON: So if we turn to part 10, Mr Kenderdine and we will walk – move forward from there – and - - - 15 MR KENDERDINE: Certainly, Mr Cameron. MR CAMERON: Thank you very much. MR KENDERDINE: The National War Memorial Park traffic. I have been 20 asked a question about the potential to allow vehicles exiting the underpass to turn left into Taranaki Street. There are a number of issues to be considered before a decision on this can be and I note my experience of a similar band, when we first averted Buckle Street to the north to enable construction of the underpass. 25 After a review, an operational decision was made to allow the left turn from the shared lane, and this has performed satisfactorily. A safety audit of the option of allowing the left turn once the underpass is complete, is currently under way, which involves a formal decision- 30 making process with input from safety auditors, designer and the transport agency safety engineers. This will culminate in a final decision by the transport agency as to how the intersection is operated initially. 35 I also noted that such matters are continually reviewed and adjustments to operation made from time to time. MR CAMERON: Sir, I should perhaps add to that, because I think it should be done now for completeness and of course that is subject to the 40 Board’s decision on the matter or the determination of the Board on the point. CHAIRPERSON: Yes. 45 MR CAMERON: Yes. Basin Reserve, Wellington 21.05.14 Page 7247 CHAIRPERSON: Okay. MR CAMERON: No, I would not want - - - 5 CHAIRPERSON: No. No. MR CAMERON: - - - that part to be read on the assumption that that would be in some way ignored - - - 10 CHAIRPERSON: Yes. MR CAMERON: - - - or overlooked. CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. 15 MR KENDERDINE: The Park Road links. I understand also there has been discussion about the various road links around the National War Memorial Park, including how they will operate and when they will be open. This can be summarised based on current planning as follows. 20 The underpass will be open for traffic in October with the likelihood that all three lanes will be open. At this point, Tory Street will become a cul-de-sac again, with no access to State Highway 1. Tory Street will be connected through to Tasman Street in January 2015 as a slow speed 25 link through the park. Buckle Street West, between Tasman Street and Taranaki Street, will remain a cul-de-sac as it is now, until March 2015 and the road will then be opened as a one way link westbound from Tasman Street to Taranaki Street. 30 Current indications from Ministry of Culture and Heritage are that the link will be closed when the National War Memorial is open, approximately 10 am to 4.30 pm and then opened up to slow speed through traffic at night. This will enable vehicular exists to Massey University and the National War Memorial during the day and provide 35 the tiered benefits of passing traffic at night. Buckle Street East, between Tasman Street and Sussex Street will be built as a cul-de-sac in March 2015 closed at the Sussex Street end. It will remain like this until the bridge is complete, when it will then 40 provide a one way slow speed link from Sussex Street up to Tasman Street. On the northern side of the park, the parking area for the National War Memorial will comprise a one way eastbound lane from Martin Square 45 to Tory Street. It is intended to include short stay parking for the Basin Reserve, Wellington 21.05.14 Page 7248 National War Memorial and some drop-off areas for the Mount Cook School. This will be opened in March 2015. In the north-eastern corner of the park, a cul-de-sac will provide access 5 to the rare of the crèche and will include nine parking spaces. This will also be opened in March 2015. While this is the intention and the current plans, I know that timing may change as work progresses and operational decisions could change 10 how particular aspects function. If I may draw your attention to the image, which is Annexure F. That just shows those roads that I was talking about. 15 [10.35 am] CHAIRPERSON: If you could just run us through that. MR KENDERDINE: So what I call – starting at the top is the underpass, 20 obviously, with two lanes coming off Sussex Street going into tunnel, and effectively three lanes open coming out of the tunnel. Then Tory Street, which runs from the top of the page down to a point just on the corner of the police barracks, will be shut off. It currently turns onto the temporary road, so it will be shut off to enable us to complete the work 25 over the top of the box which is in that area I am indicating, immediately inside the tunnel, or immediately above the inside of the tunnel. And then Buckle Street west, which we refer to a lane that goes through 30 the centre of the parade ground, that will be closed during the day so that traffic will be forced up and around the back of the National War Memorial and back out and down onto Taranaki Street, and then opened at night is the way the Ministry of Culture and Heritage is preferring to operate that link. There is some lengthy debate going on 35 between Massey University for instance, the National War Memorial Council, and the advisory bodies associated, the RSA, as to exactly how that should work.

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