New Zealand's Auckland City Council has said that no decision has yet been taken on whether public transport will also be included in the Te Wero cycle and pedestrian bridge across the Viaduct Harbour. Design work will now be finalised by 2012 and the bridge is scheduled for completion in 2016.
A dramatic opening design for the bridge by Hyder Consulting, Denton Corker Marshall and Kenneth Grubb & Associates won an international competition last year.
Booz & Co has since carried out an extensive independent peer review of the bridge's form and function, which was reported to the city's development committee on Thursday. The committee resolved that design work on the bridge will now be finalised in 2011/2012. Auckland City Council said that it will then "Consult international best practice, and with a clear definition of public transport requirements for the bridge, make alterations to the existing design, as required".
