10 Year Plan 2015-2025 (Volume 1: Overview and Activities; Volume 2: supporting documents)

Context and purpose. The 2015-2025 Ten Year Plan is QLDC's statutory Long Term Plan under the Local Government Act 2002, adopted on 30 June 2015 (Vol 1 p.8). Volume 1 (Overview and Activities) carries the Mayor's and Chief Executive's messages and activity statements; Volume 2 holds the Financial Strategy, the 2015-2045 Infrastructure Strategy, financial statements and policies (Vol 2 contents).

Transport. The Chief Executive identifies roading as the biggest cost at $118m (Vol 1 p.6), and the transport activity allows 'over $184m for roading, footpaths and transport, spread over ten years' (Vol 1 p.50). The Eastern Access Road (Eastern Arterial Route) across Frankton Flats was brought forward to 2015/16-2016/17 with a capital increase of $8,300,176 ($1,561,489 in 2015/16 and $6,738,675 in 2016/17) (Vol 1 pp.10-11); Volume 2's capital expenditure table shows it at $13.3m in total ($5.0m 2015/16, $8.3m 2016/17) (Vol 2 pp.12-13). Other Wakatipu transport capital in that table is renewals: sealed road surfacing $14.6m, unsealed road metalling $7.1m, pavement rehabilitation $4.5m, Crown Range and Glenorchy Road resurfacing, and the Edith Cavell Bridge ($4.34m, 2024/25). No itemised capital line for parking, public transport, the town centre or cycleways was found in the text read.

Strategy, parking and public transport. A draft Queenstown Town Centre Transport Strategy was consulted on (closing May 2015) with no budget attached (Vol 1 p.50). A proposal to make all-day parking 'more expensive and less convenient in downtown Queenstown' drew 311 submissions, '51.4% saying we should not increase parking charges', and Council decided it 'will not increase parking cost in isolation' (Vol 1 p.50). The plan anticipates 'Improved provision of public transport services in the Wakatipu' and a Wānaka public transport business plan with Otago Regional Council (Vol 1 p.49), with transport funded from local and central government sources; no NZTA subsidy figure is stated.

What followed.

Mass rapid transit: The text read contains no reference to mass rapid transit.