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2001 Conference - Rotorua
 Infrastructure
- Getting the Best from What You've Got
Rick van Barneveld
National Highway Manager
Transit New Zealand
Contents
Overview
- Statutory Framework
- Local Enablers Create Success
- Keys to Success
Statutory Framework
- Cost of state highways met from State Highway Account
- Principal objective:
"safe and efficient state highway network"
- But opportunities abound
Local Enablers Create Success
- Route P - Tauranga District (not a highway)
- SH2 - Hutt City
- Stoke Bypass - Nelson City
- Waiouru Interchange - Manukau City
- Kapiti Western Link Road
- SH6A - Frankton to Queenstown
- South Eastern Arterial - Auckland
- Burwood Expressway - Christchurch City
- Hawera Rail Subway
- Taupo Lakefront Reconstruction
- Taupo Eastern Bypass
- Various Mainstreet Schemes
- Named Tourist Routes
Total Value: Over $200m
Economic Impact: Exceeds $1b
Keys to Success
- Partnerships
- Clarity of interest/objectives
- Attitude
- Commitment to the long haul
- Thinking laterally
Partnerships
Delegation of Transit Functions - Rotorua
- One stop shop
- Local commitment
- Local knowledge
- Priority on improvements
- Better service
- Not a panacea
Strategic Network Development -
Tauranga/Auckland
- ACCESS agreement
- Consolidated focus
- Faster project development
- Political leverage
- Avoidance of pitfalls
- Honest alignment
Single Project Joint Initiatives - SEART,
Auckland - Stoke Bypass, Nelson
- Formal arrangements best
- Survive election cycles
- Agreements foster respect
- Changes consultation to participation
- Elevates roadblocks to solution
- Tourist routes
Joint Contracting Initiatives - Taupo
Lakefront - Various Mainstreets - Bayroads
- Possibilities significant
- Leverage of capabilities
- Savings proven
- Confidence in service improvements
- More certainty
- Releases resources
- Start with sharing aspirations
Joint Network Management
- Must be fit for purpose
- Marlborough Roads acclaimed success
- Customers better off
- Costs reduced
- Skill risks managed
- Core businesses enhanced
- Opportunities are challenging
Clarity of Interest
- Transit's core business a given
- Use Transit's local focus
- Define your focus clearly
- Structured approach to maintaining alignment
Attitude
- Can do not universal
- Try again
- Find "right thing right way"
- Size is not critical
Commitment to Long Haul
- Rapid fire not always practicable
- MOUs pay off
- Inspect creates respect
Thinking Laterally
- Thinking Laterally
- Route P - sandfill
- Hutt City - gateway
- Stoke - community severance
- SH6A Queenstown - gateway
- Taupo Lakefront - long term
- Mainstreets - local ownership
- Tourist Routes - trans-regional interests
- ACCESS Tauranga - long term strategy
- Marlborough Roads - national leverage for savings
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