QTS-224 · Board or committee paper · 2026
Queenstown Strategic Network Plan – summary (Attachment 1 to the August 2026 Board paper)
Marked 'In confidence' by its author. Publicly released by NZTA / OIA-23524 on 16 Oct 2026.
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The six-slide QSNP summary attached to the August 2026 Board paper. It sets out the key challenges, including 2055 demand forecast at 2.5–3.0 times capacity and 95th-percentile SH6A travel times up 97% between 2021 and 2025, the three-part strategic approach, and a three-stage intervention sequence ending with Frankton–Queenstown and Frankton–Ladies Mile offline public transport and a new Kawarau River crossing. It lists interventions tested but not progressed: a Queenstown Hill back road, SH6A tunnelling or double-decking, high-capacity ferries and a Malaghans Road alternative route.
Key figures
- 2055 demand 2.5–3.0x capacity (p.2)
- 95th percentile travel times +97% 2021–2025 (p.2)
- 0.5% lower visitor growth: $3.9b NPV over 40 years (pp.2, 5)
- High-level costs $1.5–$2.5b (p.5)
Rapid transit
Mass rapid transit means light rail, gondola/cable car, bus rapid transit and similar dedicated rapid-transit technologies. It does not include ordinary bus services or ferries.
Substantive. Discusses, assesses, recommends or programmes mass rapid transit.
Stage 3 includes Frankton–Queenstown and Frankton–Ladies Mile offline public transport; corridor protection listed as an implementation action.
"Offline public transport" and "Protect future high-capacity corridors" listed under 'Sequence step-change improvements' (p.3)
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NZTA (Waka Kotahi). Queenstown Strategic Network Plan – summary (Attachment 1 to the August 2026 Board paper) (2026). Released under OIA-23524.