Queenstown Lakes District Council’s (QLDC) Traffic & Parking Bylaw 2025 | | Kā Waeture Huarahi kā Tūka Waka 2025 is now in effect, after it was approved at the Full Council Meeting held on Thursday 27 November.

The bylaw plays an important role in enabling Council to regulate behaviour on roads throughout the district, establishing traffic and parking controls to help promote public safety, address obstructions, and balance road use between different users.

As part of the new Traffic & Parking Bylaw 2025, several changes have been adopted and include:

• Enabling police to enforce the fitting of snow chains on vehicles (particularly on the Crown Range).
• Incorporating new definitions to aid regulation in emerging areas of interest for the district (e.g., electric vehicles, micromobility devices).
• Helping to regulate shared zones and shared paths through additional clauses.
• Encouraging the use of active transport modes by allowing more flexible parking locations.

Formal submissions on the matter in August and September this year also led to the addition of an explanatory note within the bylaw to better explain its purpose, a change to include ‘wheeled recreational devices’ as a definition, and a clarification to the clause regarding kerbside collection.

As part of those formal submissions, feedback on general traffic and parking issues were shared with relevant Council departments to address through routine maintenance, or to inform the future development of other traffic and parking-related Council initiatives.

More information on QLDC’s new Traffic & Parking Bylaw 2025 can be found online at www.qldc.govt.nz/bylaws.

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