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Locals Voice

Ideas from locals

Practical fixes, ranked by how many locals back them. Disagreeing is a button too — concerns are counted and shown, not buried.

Traffic & Transport

Deal with parking overflow in residential streets

Look at the streets that absorb the overflow when nearby parking fills, and decide with those residents what to do about it.

Gathering support📍 Residential streets near busy hubsWho should act: QLDC

Trade-offs: Permit schemes cost money to run · Can push the problem one street further out · Residents on the same street often disagree

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

Traffic & Transport

Treat the lake as a serious commuting route

Look at what it would take for lake transport to work as everyday transport for locals, not mainly as a visitor experience.

Gathering support📍 Lake WakatipuWho should act: ORC · QLDC · Business community

Trade-offs: Weather dependent · Only helps trips that start and finish near the water · Landing infrastructure is not cheap

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

Traffic & Transport

Put bus frequency at peak ahead of new routes

Make the busiest services turn up often enough that you can leave the house without checking a timetable.

Gathering support📍 Busiest corridors at peakWho should act: ORC · QLDC

Trade-offs: Costs more per route · Depends on drivers being available · Quieter areas may see no change

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

Traffic & Transport

Get big employers and schools to stagger start times

Spread the peak instead of expanding the road, by getting the biggest employers and schools to shift their start and finish times apart.

Gathering support📍 District-wideWho should act: Business community · QLDC · Locals

Trade-offs: Hard to coordinate · Awkward for families with school and work in different windows · Needs enough big employers to take part to matter

Put up by Queenstown.com

Nobody's weighed in yet — you'd be first.

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