Let s Get Wellington Moving to be overhauled with new independent chair Hamish Cardwell
Governance at the troubled Wellington transport renewal plan is to be overhauled and an independent chairperson appointed.
An independent chair of the board, a programme director for the three-year programme and a new deputy programme director will also be added to the leadership team.
Project partners, the city and regional councils, and the Transport Agency met with Transport Minister Michael Wood yesterday to discuss the findings of that review.
They agreed to speed up decision making by simplifying the governance structure, and bring in an expert in team collaboration for the leadership team.
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GrahamCA, 23. December 2020, 19:01
Be even worse next year when traffic bypasses Pukerua Bay therefore reaching the “expressway” even sooner!
TrevorH, 23. December 2020, 19:31
@ Graham CA: the jam begins where the Expressway ends currently. Our 1950s roads cannot cope with a population more than double the size of that time. Immigration of more than 1 million people since 2000 and a lack of investment in infrastructure produce this result.
greenwelly, 23. December 2020, 20:29
@Trevor H. The growth in population over the last 20 years has been over 50% natural (600K). Between 2000 and 2019, net inward migration was only 470,000.
IanS, 24. December 2020, 9:27
Passenger trains Wellington to Auckland on only 3 days per week remains an outrage. Even one train per day each way would be a significant improvement (but not acceptable of course). Surely this can be fixed instantly by ‘decree’ (with
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