WELLINGTON REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORT PLAN 2015 2018 MID–TERM UPDATE PROGRAMME SECTION CONTENTS Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................1 Significant activities ...............................................................................................................................................2 Committed activities .............................................................................................................................................9 Automatically included activities ....................................................................................................................... 13 Non-prioritised activities .................................................................................................................................... 14 Inter-regional significance ................................................................................................................................... 18 Funding sources and financial forecasts ..........................................................................................................20 Funding sources ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Updated estimated 10 year programme cost and forecast expenditure .................................................................................................................................................22 Significant expenditure funded from other sources ...................................................................................... 24 Provincial Growth Fund ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................25 Urban Cycleways Fund .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................25 Crown rail funding ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................25 WELLINGTON REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORT PLAN 2015 2018 MID–TERM UPDATE i THE 2018-2021 URBAN CYCLEWAYS EMERGENCY WORKS 19 PROGRAMME PROJECTS WITH ONGOING FUNDING FROM 2015-18 SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS INVESTIGATION AND DESIGN OF TRANSMISSION GULLY AT A GLANCE INCLUDING: TO SH58 & MASTERTON MELLING INTERCHANGE AND & PEKA PEKA TO TO CARTERTON PETONE TO GRENADA OTAKI EXPRESSWAY THREE FOCUS AREAS PUBLIC WALKING ORGANISATIONS11 TRANSPORT111 ACTIVITIES 31SIGNIFICANT RESILIENCE TRANSPORT & CYCLING OR PROGRAMMES ACTIVITIES OF ACTIVITIES 17 12 8 SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS FORECAST EXPENDITURE 24 3 16 BY ACTIVITY CLASS 2018-21 ($M) PROJECTS & MAINTENANCE TRANSITIONAL RAIL PROJECTS & MAINTENANCE IN OVERALL PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES IN OVERALL PROGRAMME TARGETED AT IMPROVING RESILIENCE 600 $583.71M $579.53M 500 Improvements 23 PROJECTS & ONGOING 400 $400M SERVICES Ongoing 300 $240.76M 200 $129.50M $113.51M SAFETY 100 $41.35M STATE HIGHWAYS POLICE $7.54M $6.81M SIGNIFICANT12 PROJECTS WITH HIGH 0 CONTRIBUTION State highway Public transport Local road State highway Local road Walking and cycling Road safety Investment management/ improvements maintenance maintenance improvements improvements promotion Transport Planning 25 ROADING BEHAVIOUR PROJECTS & MAINTENANCE IN OVERALL PROGRAMME TARGETED AT IMPROVING SAFETY ii Regionwide: Project Next Integrated Aotea Quay improvements ticketing and fares Wellington/Wairarapa metro rail track Resilient Port access infrastructure catch up renewals Unlocking Rail Network Capacity & improving resilience (RS1) Unlocking capacity and improving resilience – infrastructure Ngauranga to Airport (Let’s Get Wellington Moving) Park & ride gates Wellington ITS improvement programme Kent and Cambridge Terraces Real time information tools roading improvement Adelaide Road Electric buses improvements Noise walls Suburban Bus improvement programme Priority Phase 1 Otaki Palmerston North – Wellington Passenger rail (Capital Connection) Waikanae SH2 Featherston to Masterton safe system transformation Masterton East West connectors – Relief Route Paraparaumu Paekakariki Carterton Transmission Gully interfaces Wairarapa service & capacity 31 and SH1/58 revocation enhancements (E-DMUs & Shuttles) SH2 Featherston to Upper Hutt Greytown safe system transformation Porirua Featherston SIGNIFICANT SH58 Porirua to SH2 Upper Hutt safe system transformation SH1 Tawa through CBD – Upper Hutt ACTIVITIES Interim Optimisation Measures Northern Growth Roads SH2/Whakatiki Street intersection improvements Lower Hutt Martinborough Wellington Seaview The Beltway Hutt City Cross Road resilience improvement – Valley Connection Ngaio Gorge and Wadestown Eastern Bays shared path – Ngauranga to Petone walking, Great Harbour Way cycling and resilience link SH2 Wellington to Upper Modes: Hutt safer corridor Key: Priority 1 Multi-modal Safety Resilience Public Roading Airport Port Priority 2 transport Road Train Railway Walking Railway Priority 3 & Cycling station WELLINGTON REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORT PLAN 2015 2018 MID–TERM UPDATE iii iv INTRODUCTION This update to the regional programme sets out all of the land transport activities in the Wellington region proposed to be funded over the three year from period July 2018 to June 2021. The RLTP includes a statement of transport priorities for the region over the ten financial years from July 2015 to June 2025. The regional programme provides an updated financial forecast for this period. It includes investment management, road safety promotion and demand management, walking and cycling, public transport, transitional rail, and local road and state highway maintenance and improvements. Activities for which funding has already been committed, local road maintenance, operations and renewals programmes and the ongoing programme of public transport services are automatically included in the RLTP. Other activities are included at the discretion of the Regional Transport Committee (RTC). In the Wellington region, projects over $5 million that are regionally or inter-regionally significant are prioritised by the RTC. The RTC has chosen to present the significant activities in three priority bands, rather than as a numbered list. In seeking funding for activities, the LTMA sets out some requirements for how activities are prioritised. Under these requirements: • Activities for which funding has already been committed (Table four) are funded first • Automatically included activities (Greater Wellington’s public transport programme of ongoing services, and the local road maintenance, operations and renewals programmes of the other councils in the region) (Table five) are prioritised for funding ahead of other activities • Activities that are included at the discretion of the RTC are then prioritised As part of the development of the RLTP 2015 a decision was made about how to determine the significance of activities and the implications of this for prioritisation. As a result of this decision: • Activities under $5 million and those that are not regionally or inter-regionally significant, known as non-prioritised activities (Table six) are prioritised for funding ahead of significant activities • Under the updated regional programme prioritisation methodology, significant activities (those that are over $5 million and regionally significant) in Table one and two have been placed in priority bands. These priority bands are ranked after the non-prioritised activities in the overall programme in the following order: • Priority band 1 (the highest priority significant new activities) • Priority band 2 (the second highest priority significant new activities) • Priority band 3 (the third highest priority significant new activities) The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) must take account of the RLTP when allocating funding from the National Land Transport Fund (NLTF) through the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP). Most activities require funding assistance from the NLTF and will only go ahead if they are included in the NLTP by the NZTA. Most activities, other than state highway and transitional rail activities, also depend on funding from regional or local councils and will only go ahead if they are included in the relevant council’s long term plan or annual plan. The priority of activities does not indicate the order in which they will be implemented; this will be determined as part of other decision making processes. Proposed budgets and timing for activities are subject to change as project scope develops and more information becomes available. This RLTP mid-term review for the Wellington region has been prepared in accordance with the legislative requirements under the Land Transport Management Act 2003. The programme forms a fundamental element of the RLTP. WELLINGTON REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORT PLAN 2015 2018 MID–TERM UPDATE 1 SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES Significant activities are those transport projects or programmes in the region with a total cost over $5 million that are regionally