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Feedback from the Napier community has highlighted that there is an opportunity to make Carlyle Street a safer route for people to travel. Napier City Council is being supported by Waka Kotahi to work with the local community to calm traffic, increase feelings of safety, and make the area a more enjoyable place to spend time in.
In 2023 we received feedback from the community in an initial survey and workshops which showed there was an opportunity to make the area safer and more people-friendly. The full benchmark report of these findings can be found here.
Napier City Council have made some initial changes to the street’s design using semi-permanent features that seek to improve safety and accessibility for people moving through Carlyle Street, directly informed by last year’s consultation. We would now like to hear your thoughts on these changes:
Other changes yet to be implemented include efforts to address parking compliance issues, street art and an upgraded crossing on Thackeray Street near Napier Intermediate School.
Please complete the short survey here to help us understand the impact of these changes.
There will be an option at the end of this survey to leave your details to be kept up-to-date about the progress of this project.
The feedback you provide in this survey will help us decide whether to make these changes permanent.
It was selected by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, in the latest round of ‘Streets for People’ projects. These projects utilise flexible, temporary changes to make streets more people-friendly and encourage low-carbon forms of transport. They aim to improve our urban environments to benefit those who use them to commute, local businesses, and the environment. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has awarded Napier City Council $676,000 to work with the community on this project, with a further 10 percent of funding provided by Council from existing transport budgets.
Carlyle Street has been prioritised based on community feedback around safety, its busy nature as a corridor, crash data and its proximity to schools, childcare centres, and medical facilities. Previous research has provided clear data to show that improvements need to be made. We also know we need to encourage low-carbon modes of transport to reduce our carbon emissions, but our urban spaces heavily favour car journeys over active forms of transport.
Temporary changes are normally designed to be installed quickly, and also easily removed. Generally they will be in place for long enough to accurately determine their impact and to get good community feedback (both of which can change over time). The length of time needed depends on the type of change, but is normally several months to a year.
Napier City Council is working with an independent research company FOLKL to understand the community’s perception of the area, through methods such as:
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