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Community Safety Fund Community Safety Fund

Partnering with local boards and ward councillors to improve local road safety.

Auckland Transport (AT) recognises the important link between local boards and the community, Auckland Council’s Governing Body set aside $20 million in the 2018 Regional Land Transport Plan to address local road safety concerns raised by the community to their elected members. Auckland Transport (AT) is partnering with local boards to deliver over 84 safety improvement projects across Auckland. 

Project zone: Region-wide - last updated 20 November 2020

Programme details

AT and local boards are partnering to address local road safety issues via the Community Safety Fund (CSF). A total of 84 safety projects have been identified for full or significant funding across Auckland’s 21 local board areas.

  • Each of the projects has been identified by the local boards with AT’s expertise guiding them to meet safety selection criteria and budgets.
  • The Regional Fuel Tax, passed by Auckland Council’s Governing Body partly funds this programme.
  • With the AT Board approving the Tāmaki-Makaurau Road Safety Governance Group’s Vision Zero strategy for Auckland, all CSF projects will follow safe system principles.
  • The $20 million Community Safety Fund is part of AT’s overall $703 million road safety investment. Our investments are directly targeted to risk, i.e., the highest risk projects across the region are prioritised to funding with the goal of reducing deaths and serious injuries.
  • However, we know there are safety concerns for local communities that do not fall into high-priority categories for immediate investment.
  • The Community Safety Fund has been created to target and address local community safety concerns and issues.

Project development

Beginning in March 2019, AT conducted workshops with the region’s 21 local boards whose members were invited to share their candidate projects. Local Boards were also encouraged to involve ward councillors in selection and prioritisation of these projects.

  • AT then undertook detailed assessment of these candidate projects to determine their feasibility in terms of budget and site-constraints.
  • After assessment, AT conducted another series of workshops to present projects that were selected from the original candidate lists supplied by the local boards.
  • AT provided indicative costs which included all stages for development and delivery of projects.
  • Local boards then selected the shortlisted projects that could be accommodated within their Community Safety Fund budgets
  • AT is now working on delivering these projects. We will ask for community feedback on project designs for new infrastructure, such as zebra crossings and intersection signals. For smaller initiatives, such as maintenance works or electronic speed signs, we will move forward to construction once construction crews are contracted.

Project selection process

Members of the community have raised safety issues to their elected members. AT has partnered with elected members in the project selection process.

Selection criteria included

  • Safety concerns raised by the local community to prevent, control or mitigate local road and street safety hazards.
  • The maximum cost of each project is $1 million.
  • Projects must consist of best practice components, conform to AT standards and comply with New Zealand law.

Selection criteria excluded

  • Projects that are funded by existing AT road safety or other capital works programmes including, but not limited to setting speed limits, seal extensions, maintenance, renewals and planned footpath upgrades.
  • Projects not within the street, including parks, rail corridor, beaches and property not owned or controlled by AT.
  • Projects that have unacceptable effects on the overall network efficiency or introduce unacceptable secondary hazards or effects.
  • Projects with an unacceptably high maintenance costs.
  • Projects that clash with other planned projects.
  • Complex projects that may take longer than two years to deliver including but not limited to projects requiring significant engineered structures, complex resource consents and complex traffic modelling.
  • Projects containing unconventional or unproven components including new trials or pilot projects.
  • Projects or components of projects that have no demonstrable safety benefit unless they are integral with another safety project/s.

Timeframe

  • March 2019 – Workshops with Local Boards to introduce the Community Safety Fund.
  • May to September 2019 – Confirmation of projects by local boards.September – February 2020 –Investigation and development of initial designs.* 
  • February 2020 onwards – Consultation for community feedback begins and work continues on detailed designs and construction of selected projects.

* Note that consultation will start early on a selection of advanced projects. More information can be found below.

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