Transport

We help Aucklanders and the goods needed to move around the city with well-planned transport networks, good quality local roads and convenient, frequent public transport that more people use. We deliver a comprehensive programme of safety improvements to reduce harm across the transport network.

• Capital investment - 3 years: $4,200 million.
• Operating expenditure - 2022-2023: $1,733 million.

Our plan

• Safety – continued investment to minimise harm to people using our transport system.
• Travel choices and climate change – major investment in public transport, walking and cycling to provide Aucklanders with more attractive options and help to reduce emissions.
• Customer experience – investment to enhance people’s experience of traveling across the Auckland region.
• Resilience – investment to ensure that we maintain our critical assets and core services.
• Sustainability – reducing the carbon emissions from council activities.
• Growth – we are focusing our support on enabling growth in a few key priority areas across the region.

What we will deliver

• Critical asset renewals.
• Urban and Rural Road safety programmes.
• Urban cycleways programme.

Challenges

• Public transport recovery - ongoing COVID-19 impacts and permanent behavioural shifts towards people working from home will make growing public transport usage back to pre COVID-19 levels challenging in the short term.
• Congestion – the benefits of decongesting Auckland’s transport network have been estimated to be between $900 million and $1.3 billion per year (approximately 1 to 1.5 per cent of Auckland’s GDP).
• Safety – Auckland has a serious problem with road deaths and injuries. In 2020 alone, 37 people died and 489 people were seriously injured on our roads.

You should know

The information here is an edited version of the Annual Budget 2022/2023 transport pages.

See page 38 of the Annual Budget 2022/2023 document (PDF 10MB) for more information.