Great­er Wel­ling­ton Region­al Coun­cil and Wel­ling­ton City Coun­cil have partnered with NZTA to invest­ig­ate the pub­lic trans­port cor­ridor that runs through the Wel­ling­ton CBD, between the rail­way sta­tion and the region­al hos­pit­al in New­town. The study is reas­on­ably com­pre­hens­ive: instead of look­ing at quick fixes, it’s ask­ing what we should be doing in the long run.

The first phase is a web-based sur­vey that is set to fin­ish Fri­day, Novem­ber 18 – tomor­row. The sur­vey asks how fre­quently ser­vices should oper­ate and accept­able walk­ing dis­tances to bus stops, basic­ally set­ting the require­ments that a future trans­port net­work must adhere to, as well as how the ser­vice is cur­rently used. A Dom­Post art­icle has already out­lined a sum­mary of early res­ults, but there’s still time to give your feed­back.

For people who are inter­ested in urb­an trans­port, there’s huge amounts of fur­ther read­ing. I’d sug­gest start­ing with Human Trans­it, a blog by Jar­rett Walk­er, a pub­lic trans­port plan­ning con­sult­ant who has recently been work­ing with GWRC. Yes, there is a Wel­ling­ton sec­tion in his blog.