Ngaio: Colway Street proposed bus stop & parking changes
This consultation closed on Monday 27 March 2023.
Bus clearance issues and proposed solutions
Metlink is proposing roading improvements along Colway Street to improve bus clearance and access to bus stops. These improvements seek to ensure accessibility to public transport services and maintain effective operations.
We are engaging the local community in and around Colway Street to gather helpful insights and perspectives on how the road is used, to aid us in fine tuning our proposal for roading improvements. Residents and the wider community will be consulted from Monday 13 March to Monday 27 March.
This feedback stage is to gain resident and community perspective that will feed into a final proposal considered by Wellington City Council, and if progressed, will be brought back to the community for formal consultation on Monday 24 April 2023.
Colway Street has been identified by the bus operator and bus users as extremely difficult to access. Access to the six bus stops is poor due to parked cars and a lack of bus-stop line marking. Emergency vehicles and buses also face access challenges, with speed significantly reduced. Occasionally bus drivers have to ask owners of vehicles to move them to pass through sections of the street.
Metlink and WCC officers have conducted site visits to Colway Street measuring these issues leading to this proposal.
Recognising that there is demand for on-street parking on Colway Street, Metlink and WCC have developed the following proposals. Further description and visual representation can be found below.
- Sections of broken yellow lines to be introduced along Colway Street, to improve traffic flow and approach and exit to bus stops. These will mostly be over driveways to mitigate parking loss, or as extensions of existing broken yellow lines.
- Stop pair 4451 and 5451 to remain (west end)
- National bus stop marking standards (Waka Kotahi) to be introduced, i.e. new bus stop line markings.
- Stop pair 4453 and 5453 to remain (east end)
- Stop 4453 to be moved to 56 Colway Street. A new shelter to be installed.
- National bus stop marking standards (Waka Kotahi) to be introduced, i.e. new bus stop line markings.
- Stop pair 4452 and 5452 to be removed (mid-Colway Street)
- The current bus stopping space at stop 5452 to be replaced entirely by broken yellow lines.
- The existing bus stop shelter at stop 4452 to be removed.
There are currently approximately 93 on-street shared carparking spaces along Colway Street. With the proposed roading changes, we estimate a loss of 30 parking spaces.
During off peak times (9am to 2:45pm) council officers have observed that around 50% of parking on-street spaces are occupied, mostly by residents.
During peak school drop off / pick up times (8:15 - 9am and 2:45 - 3:30pm) parking spaces are occupied along most of Colway Street, as parents drop off / pick up children attending Ngaio School.
Improving bus clearance will make Colway Street easier to traverse for all road users. Colway Street residents and users can use the consultation response form(external link) to let Metlink and WCC know their perspective on these proposals.
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Section A: 1-20 Colway Street
Summary of changes:
- Stop 4451(external link): extend bus box by 2.7m, add broken yellow lines to create 18.8m entry taper & 20.5m exit taper for buses
- Stop 5451(external link): add broken yellow lines to create 15m entry taper & 15m exit taper for buses
- 15 Colway Street: add 20.2m of broken yellow lines
- 18 Colway Street: add 7.1m of broken yellow lines
- 19 Colway Street: add 16.3m of broken yellow lines
Section B: 21-42 Colway Street
Summary of changes:
- 21-25 Colway Street: add 27m of broken yellow lines
- 28 Colway Street: add 20.3m broken yellow lines
- 30-32 Colway Street: add 16.4m broken yellow lines
- 39A Colway Street: add 19.6m broken yellow lines
- 40 Colway Street: add 20.3m broken yellow lines
Section C: 43-65 Colway Street
Summary of changes
- Stop 4452(external link): remove stop and shelter
- Stop 5452(external link): remove stop
- Stop 4453(external link): move to outside 56 Colway Street, add new shelter, add 15m bus box, add broken yellow lines for 15m entry taper & 9m exit taper for buses.
- Stop 5453(external link): add 15m bus box, add 20.4m entry taper & 15.2m exit taper for buses.
- 43-51 Colway Street: add 67.4m of broken yellow lines
- 46-48 Colway Street: extend broken yellow lines by 10.9m
