CBD, Part 1

Sue Kedgley says there's not enough room in the CBD for the buses from the busway. But she's a strong supporter of light rail. In the CBD, light rail will run on existing streets. If there's not enough room for buses, how come there's enough room for light rail?

Here's the council's answer:

Road space would need to be reallocated to enable light rail tracks to be placed on lanes currently used by buses and general traffic. It is likely that existing bus lanes would need to be opened up to general traffic. This would have a significant impact on existing bus services and general traffic. - pg 50, Scenarios Report

In other words, to make room for light rail, the council expects to close the exisiting bus lanes - with adverse impacts not only on Northern Suburbs users, but on all other Wellington bus users too.