REGIONAL Land Transport Plan FOR TARANAKI 2015/16 – 2020/21 June 2018 As revised by mid-term review for the 2018/19 – 2020/21 period 3 45 43 Taranaki Regional Council Regional Land Transport Plan for Taranaki 2015/16 – 2020/21 As revised by a 2018/19 – 2020/21 mid-term review Produced by: With assistance from: March 2015 As revised by mid-term review at June 2018 Word document #2072591-v1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents ..................................................................................... i Activities of inter-regional significance ........................................ 61 Foreword .............................................................................................. iii 6. Funding the RLTP .......................................................................... 62 1. Introduction to the plan .................................................................... 1 Proposed funding sources .......................................................... 62 Purpose and role ......................................................................... 1 The future without regionally dedicated funds ............................. 64 Area and period covered .............................................................. 1 Ten-year forecast of expenditure and revenue ............................. 65 Background and scope ................................................................. 2 National moderation and allocating of funding ........................... 67 Development process ................................................................... 3 Activities to be funded from other sources ................................... 67 2. Setting the scene – the Taranaki region .............................................. 5 7. Monitoring, reviews and variations.................................................... 68 Geography .................................................................................. 5 Monitoring the Plan ................................................................... 68 Population................................................................................... 7 Review of the Plan ..................................................................... 68 Taranaki’s economy ..................................................................... 8 Variations to the Plan ................................................................ 68 Changes in land use patterns ..................................................... 10 Significance policy in relation to Plan variations ........................... 69 The land transport network ......................................................... 11 Glossary of terms and acronyms ............................................................. 70 Alternative modes ...................................................................... 16 Appendix I: Legislative content requirements of RLTP ............................. 74 Key journeys including cross-boundary matters ............................ 18 Appendix II: Assessment of statutory compliance ................................... 76 3. Statutory context .............................................................................21 Appendix III: Assessment of the relationship with Police activities ............. 78 Land Transport Management Act 2003 ...................................... 21 Appendix IV: 10-year expenditure forecasts ........................................... 80 The Plan ................................................................................... 21 Appendix V: Plan development and consultation process ........................ 83 Other statements, strategies and plans ........................................ 22 Appendix VI: Investment logic diagram ................................................. 85 Plan partners and their roles ....................................................... 25 Appendix VII: State Highway 43 joint statement .................................... 87 Current guiding influences .......................................................... 28 Appendix VIII: Maps of key regional routes ............................................ 88 4. Strategic direction ...........................................................................31 Vision statement ........................................................................ 31 Strategic direction ...................................................................... 31 Taranaki’s transport issues and challenges .................................. 31 Land transport objectives, policies and measures ......................... 32 Statement of regional transport priorities ..................................... 41 5. Regional ‘Programme’ of activities ....................................................43 Proposed ‘business as usual’ activities ......................................... 44 Prioritisation process .................................................................. 47 Proposed ‘regionally significant’ activities .................................... 48 Activities already programmed for future iterations of the Plan ...... 53 Activities included for future consideration ................................... 56 Approved activities not yet complete ........................................... 60 Activities proposed to be varied, suspended or abandoned ........... 60 Accelerated Regional Roading Package ...................................... 60 Regional Improvements Activity Class .......................................... 61 i List of figures List of tables Figure 1: The Taranaki region – location and local government boundaries...........1 Table 1: Taranaki’s roading network statistics ....................................................11 Figure 2: Major landforms of Taranaki.................................................................4 Table 2: Summary of Taranaki’s land transport issues, objectives and policies….42 Figure 3: Overview of Taranaki's current regional land transport network.............13 Table 3: Proposed ‘business as usual’ activities in the Taranaki region...............43 Figure 4: Taranaki’s rail network….....................................................................14 Table 4: Regionally significant activities proposed for funding from the Figure 5: Taranaki’s strategic inter-regional corridor links……….........................18 NLTF in the 2018-2021 period...........................................................48 Figure 6: Changes in funding Activity Classes......................................................63 Table 5: Regionally significant activities proposed for funding from the NLTF outside of the 2018-2021 Period……………………………..…………..53 Figure 7: Summary of development and consultation process..............................83 Table 6: Activities for future consideration.........................................................56 Figure 8: Investment logic diagram……………………………………………..…...85 Table 7: 10-year forecast summary of anticipated regional expenditure by year…65 Figure 9: Map of Taranaki’s key regional routes…………………………………....88 Table 8: 10-year forecast summary of anticipated regional expenditure and funding sources...........................................................................66 Table 9: Assessment of the Plan’s compliance with Section 14 of the LTMA.....76 Table 10: Police resourcing for land transport activities in Taranaki.......................78 Table 11: 10-year Activity Class expenditure forecasts by organisation ($).............80 Table 12: Breakdown of expected funding source for the 10-year expenditure forecasts.........................................................................82 Table 13: Summary of the development process for the Draft Regional Land Transport Plan 2015/16 – 2020/21: Mid-term Review for the 2018/19 period…………………………………………………..……84 ii FOREWORD Under changes to the Land Transport Management Act 2003 introduced in Central Government policy has directed the first call of land transport 2013, regional transport committees are required to develop a regional dollars to national priorities. This may affect the level of funding for our land transport plan, in consultation with their community and stakeholders, regional priorities but we will continue to focus on projects that are every six years. important to Taranaki, making our roads safer, more efficient and providing walking and cycling opportunities. The first such plan for the region, the Regional Land Transport Plan for Taranaki 2015/16 -2020/21(the Plan or RLTP), was prepared by the The Plan underpins and takes into account previous work undertaken at a Regional Transport Committee for Taranaki during 2014/15 and approved national and regional level such as the Regional Land Transport Strategy for by Council in April 2015. It came into effect on 1 July 2015. Taranaki 2011-2041, Connecting New Zealand 2011, and the draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2018. The Committee is The RLTP is a six-year (1 July 2015 to 30 June 2021) document, with a ten satisfied that this Plan is consistent with these documents. Issues, targets year forecast. It sets out the strategic direction for land transport in the and priorities identified in these documents have also assisted in identifying Taranaki region over an approximately 30 year planning horizon; states the and prioritising the transport issues identified in this Plan. regional priorities for a 10 year period; and outlines the proposed land transport activities over the next 6 years that seek to contribute to these, for Section