National Land Transport Programme 1996 - Wellington regional office (Wellington, Nelson, Tasman, Marlborough)

 

Top n Tales August 1995

NLTP 1996 - Wellington regional allocation

NLTP 1996 - Wellington state highway and local road projects

Top n Tales August 1995

The Wellington regional office newsletter covering the 1996 NLTP covers both Wellington and the Nelson/Tasman/Marlborough region's funding from Transit New Zealand.  Funding for the NLTP was nearly $47.4m for Wellington and $24.4m for Nelson/Tasman/Marlborough.

Wellington was noted as having the second highest allocation for passenger transport at just over $10m, with the remainder of funding slightly higher for state highways than for local roads. Nelson/Tasman/Marlborough's funding was predominantly for state highways. 

By far the biggest project in the Wellington region was the Newlands Interchange on SH1, which removed the last set of traffic lights on SH1 out of Wellington until the end of the motorway beyond the Mungavin Interchange.  Also of note was funding for the first stage of the Wellington Inner City Bypass, which simply converted Buckle Street and Vivian Street into a one-way pair east of Taranaki Street (feeding onto Vivian and Ghuznee Streets respectively).  It would be nearly ten years before the second stage of the Inner City Bypass would be funded, due to vocal opposition. The largest local road project in Wellington region was reconstruction of the Kent/Cambridge Terrace/Courtenay Place intersection (which is now due to be reconstructed again following decisions in Let's Get Wellington Moving). 

In Nelson/Tasman/Marlborough by far the biggest project was funding for seal extensions in Marlborough and Tasman. The largest state highway project in that region was the committed Whangamoa North Deviation on SH6.