Let’s Get Wellington Moving

7 September 2021

Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) is an ambitious $6.4 billion programme to transform Wellington’s transport system to support projected growth, reduce congestion and make it safer, and easier to get around.

The last few years have been spent engaging with Wellingtonians and key stakeholders on a range of options for Wellington’s transport future and starting to plan projects that will be delivered by June 2024.

This includes a project to re-develop Lambton Quay and Willis Street between Parliament and Courtenay Place – the area known as Wellington’s Golden Mile. This involves removing cars and trucks and widening footpaths to create a more attractive, accessible space to walk, shop and dine in the city. Bus stop improvements and dedicated bus lanes will make bus services more reliable.

During the 2021–24 National Land Transport Programme period, Wellington Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Waka Kotahi will invest $3.1 billion on this and other transport improvements in the capital, including:

• improvements aimed at reducing congestion and increasing safety along Thorndon Quay and Hutt Road
• completing walking and cycling links into the central city and connecting the central city with Te Ara Tupua, the walking and cycling path planned between Wellington and Lower Hutt
• making it safer for people who walk through the busiest places in the central city; for example, by improving traffic signals or installing raised, widened or new crossings
• making speeds safer along State Highway 1 from Mount Victoria to Wellington Airport
• enhancing the street environment and improving access to Kaiwharawhara ferry terminal
• improvements aimed at encouraging more people to use buses.

Longer-term, LGWM will investigate options to connect the central city and southern suburbs using rapid transit, options for improving access around the Basin Reserve and installing a second tunnel in Mount Victoria.

Let’s Get Wellington Moving project(external link)
2021–24 NLTP Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington regional summary