Improve the resilience of critical infrastructure New and Expanding Issues Coastal protection infrastructure (CPI) maintain and provide new coastal – protection infrastructure to prevent beach erosion and asset damage in critical locations to deal with rising sea levels and extreme weather and tidal events. It is important to recognise it will be financially unviable to maintain and protect all coastal infrastructure, agreeing on locations’ is crucial. The Central ‘critical Coastal Board Regional Coastal Plan’ outlines the creation of a ‘Central level service framework” which will identify locations where “visitation infrastructure can support high levels of visitation. This may assist in identifying locations’. ‘critical Further Develop Public Transport Network Resilience (PTN) Upgrades, refurbishment and – renew infrastructure assets to increase resilience of the public transport network Upgrades / renewal of the public transport network is critical to supporting increased usage. Lack of reliability is one of the major reasons people avoid using public transport. The Integrated Transport Control Centre (ITC) and Emergency Traffic Management (ETM) initiatives will provide greater control and coordination of the transport network in the event of an emergency. Omission • Major Drainage Upgrades The options overlooks the need to upgrade major drains in areas that are subject to regular flooding. Major storm events are likely to be more regular and severe under climate change. Low lying areas in the southern part of Kingston regularly flood because the drainage network is under capacity.
Improve the resilience of critical infrastructure New and Expanding Issues Coastal protection infrastructure (CPI) – maintain and provide new coastal protection infrastructure to prevent beach erosion and asset damage in critical locations to deal with rising sea levels and extreme weather and tidal events. It is important to recognise it will be financially unviable to maintain and protect all coastal infrastructure, agreeing on ‘critical locations’ is crucial. The Central Coastal Board ‘Central Regional Coastal Plan’ outlines the creation of a “visitation level service framework” which will identify locations where infrastructure can support high levels of visitation. This may assist in identifying ‘critical locations’. Further Develop Public Transport Network Resilience (PTN) – Upgrades, refurbishment and renew infrastructure assets to increase resilience of the public transport network Upgrades / renewal of the public transport network is critical to supporting increased usage. Lack of reliability is one of the major reasons people avoid using public transport. The Integrated Transport Control Centre (ITC) and Emergency Traffic Management (ETM) initiatives will provide greater control and coordination of the transport network in the event of an emergency. • Omission Major Drainage Upgrades The options overlooks the need to upgrade major drains in areas that are subject to regular flooding. Major storm events are likely to be more regular and severe under climate change. Low lying areas in the southern part of Kingston regularly flood because the drainage network is under capacity.
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