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Auckland Transport Update for BIDs

August 2019

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• A third of the country’s population
• Nearly 40% of GDP
• Australasia's fastest growing

region

• Unrecognisable from just a few

years ago

Auckland – a city transforming

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• 1,600 staff
• 7,514 kms of roads
• 108,000 street lights
• 2,335 bus shelters
• 40 rail stations
• 23 ferry wharves
• 100 million public transport trips/patronage pa
• 20.1 million rail trips pa
• 6 million ferry trips pa
• 54.3 million bus kilometres pa = 3x around the world each day
• Single transit (HOP) card transactions per average business

day = 677,445

• Over 1,300 buses in operation
• 130 AT owned carparks (incl park n ride)
• 28 park n rides with 5300 spaces
• Capex $744 million / Opex $1.2 billion
• Total Assets $19B

AT is a big business

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AT leading in sustainability

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• Package contains around $28 billion worth of investment over

the next decade

• Expected to deliver a transport system that:

– Easily connects people, goods and services to where they need to go – Provides high quality and affordable travel choices for people of all ages and abilities – Seeks to eliminate harm to people and the environment – Supports and shapes Auckland’s growth – Creates a prosperous, vibrant and inclusive city

There is a plan

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Recent achievements and highlights

LTP Approved June 30 & RFT effective July 1

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$60 million investment in Puhinui Station Interchange linking he Airport with Botany Rapid Transit

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193 double decker buses including 43 buses for Dominion Road & Remuera Road

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22% reduction in DSI in 2018 compared to 2017

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95.2% of Auckland public transport trips were made by customers using an AT HOP card in June 2019 11,719 submissions on Safer Speeds by law

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49 level Rail Crossing upgrades and 12 new automatic pedestrian rail crossing gates

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New Hobsonville Point weekend ferry services

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$1.4 billion Eastern Busway programme Stage one construction begins

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Completed the roll out of the new network More than 270,000 journeys on public transport in Auckland every day

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100 million bus, train and ferry passenger trips recorded in the year to June – highest annual total since 1951

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$190 million City Centre Transformation begins

Stayed within

• perating

budget

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90% Capital envelope utilised

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Projects delivered

Glen Innes to Tamaki Drive Section 3 Albany Park & Ride Links to New Lynn Cycleway Franklin Road Mass Action Safety Programme Ian McKinnon Drive C/W

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Projects delivered – continued

Long Bay Glenvar Ridge Road Rodney New Bus Service Wellsford Bus Service Devonport Ride Share Ponsonby Road Crossing Recently completed Spine Road in Drury South (now officially called Maketu Road)

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Projects underway

Franklin Road

Downtown transformation begins Puhinui Station Enabling Works Started Eastern Busway – Panmure to Pakuranga in construction The new trains are coming Karangahape Road Enhancements underway Murphy’s Road upgrade project in construction

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• Addressing congestion (increasing public transport

and walking and cycling)

• Enhancing Safety/Vision Zero

AT: catalyst for change

• Priorities agreed

through ATAP and the Auckland Plan (publicly consulted on)

• Campaigns like free

PT for 5-15s on weekends

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2019/20 – What’s ahead

Delivering the UCP and progressing the next tranche of Walking and Cycling Continue Implementing the Safety Programme Accepting the delivery of 15 EMUs Eastern Busway projects progressed Continue to look after our existing assets On going network wide PT improvements 103.6 million bus, train and ferry passenger trips expected Progressing Puhinui Station Interchange / Airport Access Accelerated delivery

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Transformation Tender for Matakana Link Road Award NL2A Award Northcote Bridge Deliver Hibiscus Bays Park & Ride NZTA

• Northern Corridor
• Southern Motorway

widening Station gating programme Tender for new road maintenance and renewals contracts Ferry Fare Integration Tender for rail operator Child Fare Free weekends Dairy Flat Highway Intersection upgrade investigation Acceleration options for Mill Road and Penlink

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• Commitment from the top – the Mayor’s Letter of

Expectation and Statement of Intent

• Also AT’s Board and Chief Executive:

Working with business

“I want us to be more consistent in

• ur dealings with businesses and to

recognise the need for us to work more closely with them when we are planning any works that could impact

• r disrupt their business”

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• Key themes from recent discussions
• Appreciate the role of BIDs
• BIDs want projects to succeed
• BIDs know their areas better than anyone
• Need for early involvement
• Need for better coordination of work

What BIDs have told us

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• Key themes from recent discussions
• More and better communication
• Be open and honest in communication
• Need to constantly answer the “why” and telling

story of change

• Single point of contact at AT needed

What BIDs have told us

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• New project management platform where all work

can be identified by ward/local board area

• Upcoming consultations reviewed weekly by ELT –

template includes specific reference to BID engagement

• Minimum six-monthly updates to BID ‘clusters’ on

upcoming works

• 2020 pilot of early consultation (Feb-March) by AT

programme delivery

How AT will work better with BIDs

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• New road maintenance and renewal contracts

include requirements for enhanced comms ($3bn)

• Exploring ways in which info can be better

coordinated on a geographic basis

• Contributing to “joined up” development response

activities

• Working internally to increase business awareness
• Readily available information, accessible to BIDs

including: https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/ (noting not all works are AT related)

How AT will work better with BIDs

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Conclusion – talking leadership

• Continued focus on improving safety across the network
• Focus on providing more transport options / growing PT and

cycling

• Enhance customer experience across the network
• Working together with our Elected Members and stakeholders
• Capital programme and construction accelerates
• Support AC36/APEC/Te Matatini/CRL/Growth Programmes
• Continue to investigate acceleration of key roading projects
• Work closely with Govt to mitigate funding risks and push for

acceleration on ATAP projects delivered by others

• Focus on value for money

Thank you.