Changes for Hutt Road cancelled
The changes proposed for Hutt Road as part of Let's Get Wellington Moving have been cancelled.
Let’s Get Wellington Moving was a partnership programme between Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Greater Wellington Regional Council, and Wellington City Council - with the directive to help move more people in Wellington with fewer private vehicles. This programme was dissolved in early 2024. Wellington City Council has now taken the lead on some of this work.
Before the programme was dissolved, public engagement and planning for changes on Hutt Road and Thorndon Quay was being led through Let's Get Wellington Moving. This included the following milestones:
- 2020 - Development of project objectives and options for a proposed solution
- May-June 2021 - Public consultation on project objectives and proposed solution
- December 2023 – public consultation on designs and traffic resolution for Hutt Road.
Wellington City Council paused this project in early 2024 pending a decision through the Long Term Plan, which recommended that the Hutt Road proposal be withdrawn to save costs. This was approved through the Long Term Plan process and the project has now been cancelled.
The construction already underway on Thorndon Quay and Aotea Quay will still be completed. The designs for the Jarden Mile intersection will still progress but will be delivered at a later stage via a separate project.
Complete: two-way bike path and separate walking path
New walking and biking paths along Hutt Road were officially opened on 11 November 2019.
We turned the old shared path between Caltex Fuel Stop and the Thorndon Quay/Tinakori Road intersection into a two-way bike path and separate walking path.
It's one of our busiest commuter routes and a crucial link in the region's wider cycle network. About 1200 trips a day are made by people on bikes and the number choosing to use the shared path has doubled in the past 10 years. On an average weekday, more than 10,000 people travel this route by bus.
In time, it will be part of Te Ara Tupua, the Wellington to Hutt Valley cycling and walking link to be built by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.