Work started on Beach St in September 2020 — last week Mountain Scene reported it should be completed by March.
Meanwhile, Rees St, according to Queenstown’s council’s website, should be “open for Christmas”.
Bracken visited the resort recently and tells Scene he was “extremely disappointed” to see the level of streetworks under way in the CBD.
At present, the work includes upper Brecon St, from Skyline’s base building to Man St, lower Brecon St and Duke St, along both Beach and Rees Sts, and, in a separate project, along Marine Parade, outside Novotel Queenstown Lakeside, to Queenstown Gardens.
That project started in August and aims to improve public access between the town centre, lakefront and the Gardens and, on completion, will include new turf and drainage, a raised concrete path and new access points, a four-bay public toilet and new street furniture.
Once that’s done, the Marine Pde wastewater pump station will be upgraded.
Bracken: “Considering retailers and hospitality businesses have suffered so significantly during the pandemic, to now endure this level of additional disruption is quite extraordinary.
“Businesses, tourists and locals are now having to endure a very unpleasant experience in the CBD, right in the heart of the peak season … surely, this could…
