The Otago Daily Times yesterday asked the mayor a yes/no question: George St and flexibility - is it over?
"I haven’t had time to think about it."
Speaking just ahead of a few days off, Mr Radich said he would reconsider the matter next week.
The Dunedin City Council’s infrastructure services committee discussed a council staff report on Tuesday about what might need to happen for any mid-project revision aimed at realistically preserving the chance to revert to two-way traffic, should the conversion of three blocks of George St to one-way traffic prove to be disappointing.
Mr Radich has argued the design should at least avoid making a future switch to two-way difficult, but critics have said the project should be allowed to continue in the form the council approved back in 2021.
Council staff have received no instruction to revise the project and the committee voted 9-8 against asking staff to provide more information about alternative options before a council meeting on February 28.
It is effectively a defeat, or a setback, for proponents of a mid-project redesign.
"I expected more councillors and mana whenua representatives to be interested in future-proofing the project," Mr Radich said.
The matter could be revisited if a notice of motion is brought to the next council meeting, but Mr Radich declined to discuss such possibilities.
Work has finished in the one-way Farmers block, between Moray Pl and St Andrew St.
It is progressing in the two-way Knox block and has started in the malls block, between St Andrew St and Hanover St.
The revamp, part of a budgeted $100 million central city plan, is due to be completed in 2024.
