CLG Aotea Station group August 2021 presentation

Aotea Station

Community Liaison Group meeting 26 August 2021

Agenda 1. Overview of Aotea Station progress and COVID update (Matt Sinclair, Station Manager, Link Alliance)

2. Programme of Victoria St works and construction mitigations (Patrick Gibbs, Senior Project Engineer, Link Alliance)

3. Overview of issues raised and feedback to community (Shaun Sutton, Community Manager, Link Alliance)

4. Update from Auckland Transport (James Wickham, Transport Operations Continuity Manager) 5. Feedback and Q&A

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Overall work progress and what's ahead Matt Sinclair Station Manager

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North Excavation and internal prop installation adjacent to Wyndham St as works progress to the existing tunnels – C2 project

Last sections of station roof construction being completed

Excavation beneath roof structure scheduled to commence shortly on the recommencement of works

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Victoria

Utility diversions being completed

Station perimeter wall piling has commenced Diaphragm Wall panels (Station wall) about to commence

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Central Crowne Plaza retaining wall / demolition commenced.

Diaphragm Wall (Station wall) complete between Wellesley and Victoria complete Roof slab construction commenced in front of SkyCity

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South Below ground floor slab construction progressing.

Wellesley St Entrance Building - L1 Beams and Insitu Slab construction underway

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Below Station roof structure below Wellesley St. Opening adjacent to Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Mid level Slab Construction

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Below Mayoral Dr.

Main Station entrance

TBM Breakthrough

Reinforcing for mid slab construction

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Excavation and prop install from Wyndham St. to Victoria St.

Temporary props for excavation

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Wyndham St – Existing C2 Tunnels

Excavation and prop install to join onto existing tunnel beneath Wyndham St.

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Wellesley St entrance building and Tunnel breakthrough at Mayoral Dr

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To BTM Station

20m

To KRD Station 13

Covid 19

• Daily Site inspections for Site fencing / hoarding and Environmental controls.

• Under Level 4 - 24/7 security patrols around the site.

• Work expecting to recommence under Level 3

• Daily health check questionnaire, segregation of work groups, additional PPE. • Those who can work at home will remain working remotely.

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Victoria Street works Patrick Gibbs Senior Project Engineer

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Victoria Intersection – Phase 1: Utilities Relocation

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Victoria Intersection – 25/08/21 17

Victoria Intersection – Phase 2: Foundations

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Victoria Intersection – Phase 3: Structures

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Noise, Dust, and Smells – site mitigations Noise and dust are common around construction sites and can increase in intensity during certain activities. Here are some of the measures we undertake to help reduce these impacts on those around us: ➢ Noise mats along fence lines help to buffer noise and dust from site away from walkways and pedestrians walking past. ➢ Noise walls, usually built with scaffolding, allow us to extend noise mats higher and close the gap between the canopy and fence line. Scrim or dust sheets can also be installed for dust.

➢ Scrim can help reduce dust from site entering walkways. ➢ When the weather is dry we use non-potable water on site to help dampen dusty areas during works ➢ Because some works are noisier than others, like concrete breaking and saw cutting, wherever possible we try and programme these works outside of high impact times for those working or living around the site.

Over the last two months there have been intermittent odours present around Victoria Street, this has been due to wastewater works. ➢ These works were due to be completed at the end of August. ➢ Due to Covid-19 restrictions at level 3 these works will take a little longer to complete as crews have to maintain bubbles and practice social distancing. ➢ Once work begins again these works will take approx. 3 weeks to complete.

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Victoria Street – East Entrance

Artist impression only 21

Victoria Street – West Entrance

Artist impression only 22

Community Shaun Sutton Community Manager

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What have we heard from the community since the intersection closure?

Good stuff • Informative comms and weekly updates • Overall accessibility (i.e. step free access) • Lighting progress • Small Business Support Programme • Overall loading zone availability • Business posters up on site Improvements required • Better wayfinding • Graffiti and rubbish • More business promotional material on site • Smell and dust suppression • Some noise mitigation improvements (e.g. higher noise walls)

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Contact us: aotea@linkalliance.co.nz 0800 CRL TALK (select option 3)

Issues feedback form remains open: https://forms.gle/56AQ2JDDvvJosw5SA

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Site maintenance and tidiness Maintaining a welcoming atmosphere around an active construction site is no easy feat! Based on community feedback our focus areas are: ➢

Scrim along hoardings to help create a more visually appealing space.

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Accessibility audit (Be Lab)

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Wayfinding

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Work with Auckland Council to ensure rubbish collection services are maintained.

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Provided additional public rubbish bins around site.

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Shop and walkway cleaning

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Safety & Security ➢

Security presence on site, especially overnight.

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CCTV coverage around site.

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We have worked with some of building owners to ensure canopy lighting is on 24/7.

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Install strip and flood lighting along the walkways.

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Undertake daily graffiti clean-up. We have recently welcomed a new member to the team to focus on graffiti (it is a major issue for the city centre).

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Contact with Police and Heart of the City

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Small business support programme •

Small Business Support Programme available, developed with the support of Heart of the City and Karangahape Road Business Association.

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External engagement specialist, William Keung, provides independent, individualised, free, accessible support and specialist services

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$2000 available per year to support business continuity, digital marketing, wellbeing and events, or other business needs.

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Since launch in June, 27 businesses in Aotea have applied or in progress to apply (this is approximately 50% of all eligible businesses). 10 businesses have declined support from the programme. Remaining businesses working with William on options for support.

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Applications range from direct social media payment support, new website, new equipment/furniture, event support, etc.

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EAP (counselling) support also available – free of charge

For more information: william@werkits.com

NB: Government and Council are considering a request from some businesses for compensation funding. Link Alliance is not funded to provide compensation.

Programme eligiblity zone Ground/first floor street facing businesses only 28

Business promotional posters and scrim

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Activate Aotea programme

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Traffic, access and loading

New access ramp opened

Expansion of road area

Loading zones installed 31

Bus patronage and travel times Wellesley St opening June 27 2021

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Metrics in Dashboard Explained This report looks at the performance of bus routes, both diverted and not diverted but affected in some way as a result of other diversions. Following graphs show patronage and travel time information of bus routes between first and last stop of each route group within city centre. e.g. for G1 (Group 1) outbound, -total boardings are shown for all stops between 7089 and 7136 -average travel time is calculated between stops 7089 and 7136

Stop ID | Stop ID refers to, Previously active stop | New stop replacing previously active stop

Boarding numbers are total Monday to Friday between 4:00-7:00pm.

Average travel time graphs show average travel time for the whole week broken down into hourly intervals for the PM peak.

G1-NX2 OUTBOUND

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TOTAL BOARDINGS 6/6/2021

6/13/2021

6/20/2021

6/27/2021

7/4/2021

7/11/2021 3348

2242

2316

2122 1649

747

761

966

955

1334

1033

1069

1089 817

1077

1154

1655

1689

2217

2086

2070

1657

1924

1314

811

1364 + 1090 | 7086 + 1088

7036

7089

6/6/2021

6/13/2021

6/20/2021

6/27/2021

7/4/2021

7/11/2021

19.0 14.0 9.0

13.6 13.4 13.1 11.0 10.9

14.7 14.6 14.0 13.8 11.7 11.3

4:00-4:59pm

5:00-5:59pm

12.8 12.2 12.8 12.4 10.7 10.3

4.0

6:00-6:59pm

G2 - 82, 802, 923, 924 OUTBOUND

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TOTAL BOARDINGS 6/6/2021

6/13/2021

6/20/2021

6/27/2021

7/4/2021 1125

890

916

811

1100

7/11/2021 1088

1098

867 728

679 600

487 359

391

429

487

564

443 267

1334

638

282

352

507

337

1364+ 1090 | 7086 + 1088

7036

7038

6/6/2021

6/13/2021

6/20/2021

6/27/2021

7/4/2021

7/11/2021

19.0 14.0 9.0

15.6 15.1 15.0 15.0

16.3 16.1 15.7

11.1 10.8

11.7 11.5

4:00-4:59pm

5:00-5:59pm

13.9 14.4 14.4 14.0 10.2 10.0

4.0

6:00-6:59pm

G8 – 24 OUTBOUND

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TOTAL BOARDINGS 6/6/2021

6/13/2021

6/20/2021

6/27/2021

1476

586

619

782

746

795

1676

7/11/2021

2584

2469 1874

7/4/2021

1503

753 321

1053

337

395

387

7099+7093+7014+7146+7148 | 1095+1083+7021+7039+7154

471

434

7162

6/6/2021

6/13/2021

6/20/2021

6/27/2021

7/4/2021

7/11/2021

24.0 19.5

19.0 14.0

15.6 15.0 14.5 13.5 12.6

15.5 15.4 15.3 14.1 13.9

17.1 14.5 14.6 14.4 13.1 12.7

4:00-4:59pm

5:00-5:59pm

6:00-6:59pm

9.0 4.0

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What does it mean?

A 65% increase in bus boardings during the PM peak on these routes just at Wellesley St.

That’s an extra 2920 pm peak passengers per week or 584 per day.

If they were all to drive single occupancy vehicles that’s 4.7 lane/km of queues.