Q: What snack would you recommend? Feedback sought on Karori bus turnaround

By Frank Neill

The Karori Residents Association is asking the community to provide feedback on two new options for the bus turnaround area that will be put in place when the Allington Road culvert is replaced.

Following a community meeting in November, the Wellington City Council has come back with two options, both at the southern end of Karori Park.

One option is to use land owned by the council’s Parks, Sport and Recreation (PSR) to build a temporary bus turnaround

The council says this is the “more favourable option”. It would need PSR approval to go ahead.

Feedback received by the Karori Residents Association when this issue of the “Independent Herald” went to print also favoured that option.

The other option is to use the existing Karori Park entrance and exit, together with the western parking area at the park.

That option is the “less favourable for the project,” the council says.

Part of the process the council will implement will be engaging with local groups on the project.

The project will not go ahead before October this year, and will most likely be after that, the council says.

Once it does start, it will take more than a year to complete.

NEVER PAINT YOUR WINDOWS AGAIN!

The Karori Residents Association is recommending that people look at the options and provide the association with feedback.

The latest plans the council have put forward came in the wake of significant community objections to the original proposal.

In that proposal the council proposed routing the buses along Richmond and Collier

Avenues, Parkland Drive and Woodhouse Avenue while the culvert was being replaced. The community came out strongly opposed to that plan. The option “is no longer viable for the project,” the council says.

Feedback can be provided on the association’s Facebook page or by emailing chair@ karoriassociation.nz.