5 Tips on Buying a Home: YIP!

How many pedestrian and cyclists accidents have there been this year in the areas where LGWM proposed making changes in Johnsonville?

“Our usual approach is to provide the feedback report from a public engagement along with our response and agreed next steps for the project as soon as we can following compilation of the results,” LGWM programme director Sarah Gardner says in her reply to the paper.

“This means that Wellingtonians can see the feedback and understand what it means for the project.

“In this case there are ongoing complexities with some of the project options and their interaction with the State Highway network. We’re working through these with Waka Kotahi.

“In the interests of ensuring those who have contributed to our work can see what information was gathered from the community, we intend to release the engagement report in coming weeks without our response.

“We will circulate the report to all submitters apologising for the delay,” Ms Gardner says.

“The Waka Kotahi Crash Analysis System (CAS) does not provide an accurate report of accidents that have occurred so far in 2023. This is because there is a delay in processing crash data.

“The CAS team aim to upload fatal and injury crash information one working day after they receive a crash report and within five months after receiving a non-injury crash report.

“Noting this, CAS currently shows there has been one minor injury crash reported this year in the Johnsonville study area (within the Johnsonville/N nga project study area).

“This involved a bicycle and a car outside the BP petrol station on Johnsonville Road,” Ms Gardner says.

She also notes that the CAS data under-reports pedestrian and cycle crashes, particularly if they do not involve a vehicle.

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Written by William YIP Your friend in Real Estate 021 106 9997 William.YIP@CollectiveFN.co.nz