Submission
9 year plan feedback
Should we remove 231 Stuart Street (formerly the Fortune Theatre) from the list of strategic assets in the DCC Significance and Engagement policy?
Do you have any comments about 231 Stuart Street?
Should we charge an entry fee of $20 (incl. GST) for international visitors aged 16 and over, at Toitū and Dunedin Public Art Gallery?
Do you have any comments about the entry fee for international visitors?
Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
Dunedin Railways subsidy
Otago Central Rail Trail Trust partner DOC to support and promote the Otago Central Rail Trail. Since its opening in 2000 it worked with Taieri Gorge Railway and Dunedin Railways to support the connection between Middlemarch and Dunedin. The Train trip was popular and a great way to ensure that users connected with the centre of Dunedin, not just its hinterland. We have always supported use of the line as a vital connection with Middlemarch and Central Otago. That is more so now with the Clutha Gold development to Waihola and the start on work to make cycling access along the full length of the Roxburgh trail.
If Council wishes to support the train we ask that it ensure that the connection to Middlemarch is also enhanced with a cycleway between Pukerangi and Matarae that makes a stay in Middlemarch and then a ride to the train easily accessible rather than the difficult pukerangi hill. The trust has, with DRL approval, walked the alignment and believe we can work with adjoining landowners to provide a safe cycleway that would make the connection easy and support the train service. There is no suggestion that the train will ever be able to reach Middlemarch daily. For the train to service the trail users it needs a sensible connection that provides access to riders and their bikes to Dunedin and its harbour cycleway. We ask that you work with DRL, the community and landowners and facilitate as a matter of urgency a connection between Pukerangi and Matarae as part of funding for DRL.
30 years from one of the first sections of the rail trail being opened in Dunedin City, the true potential that the trail has and could be bringing to Dunedin is still unrealised by systemic connectivity issues with changes and uncertainty of timetables, costs and service of DRL. Simple good policy on provision of bikes on trains and one way ticketing could resolve that, and planning for whole of experience
Dunedin Tunnels Trails
OCRT supports the provision of this connection between Wingatui, Green Island and Caversham and seek that you provide for adequate funding to provide a NZCT type route through the tunnels that can be upgraded at a later date but provide for the tourism potential that can be realised immediately both for OCRT and Clutha Gold riders. DCC need to understand that this is adding value, not cost and will deliver for its community and the wider bike tourism market significantly.
Local Water Done Well feedback
Which water services delivery model do you support?
Why did you choose this option?
Do you have any other feedback related to the proposed water services delivery models?
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Submitter
Submission id number: 1132094
Submitter name:
Kate Wilson
Organisation
Otago Central Rail Trail Trust