Submitters on the proposed central-city bus hub want assurances noise will be mitigated and pedestrians will come first.
The two-day hearing on the Otago Regional Council's plan to create a bus hub in Great King St between Moray Pl and St Andrew St ended yesterday.
The proposal includes 10 bus bays, shelters or canopies, electronic timetables, public toilets, bike stands and new plantings.
Dunedin Community House spokeswoman Debbie Webster called for noise mitigation both during construction and once the hub was created. One way of doing this would be for the regional council to double-glaze the building's windows, she said.
Assurance that tinted windows or other privacy measures would be installed was also sought, especially considering the house had ''a lot of vulnerable people come in''.
The building lies at the Moray Pl end of the street and houses 18 community organisations.
The trust, which owns the building, agreed to the hub in principle.
Generation Zero member Veronica Eastell said the group wanted the design of the hub to naturally guide pedestrians.
One idea to make it more user-friendly was to have bus platforms in the centre of the road to avoid the need to cross the street when changing buses.
Overall, the idea of a bus hub was ''crucial in moving away from a car-dominated city'', she said.
Submitter Phillip Day said the proposal should be declined, as figures indicating a sufficient demand for public transport had not been supplied.
Independent commissioner Gavin Lister raised the concern the previous day that if the designation was granted, the regional council would not be bound to current designs and the final plans could differ greatly without public consultation.
He suggested a condition requiring the end product be in ''general accordance'' with current designs.
Original designs released last year showed colourful patterns on the bus bays, but this was removed from current plans, partly because of concerns the patterns might not be durable and partly to keep the bays more in line with city council design directions.
The regional council chose to provide a written response to submissions by Tuesday.
