John Wilson Drive

Reopening vehicle access to John Wilson Ocean Dr has gone well so far, Dunedin City Council staff say.

John Wilson Ocean Dr has reopened to motorists. A lone protester watched in silence as First Security operations manager Garry McLennan unlocked and removed two bollards at the St Kilda end of the windswept seaside drive at 11am yesterday.

Dunedin residents may be stuck with the reopening of John Wilson Ocean Dr.

John Wilson Ocean Dr should be reopened to vehicles within the next month.

After years of going around in circles, the Dunedin City Council yesterday decided to reopen John Wilson Ocean Dr to vehicles.

Just as Dunedin city councillors say it is time to stop stringing the community along and make a decision on John Wilson Ocean Dr, a report from council staff throws another option on the table that could prolong the debate further.

Those on either side of the debate about whether John Wilson Ocean Dr should be reopened to vehicles largely begrudgingly accept the compromise the council is proposing. 

Dunedin city councillors will have yet another opportunity to debate future vehicular access to John Wilson Ocean Dr on Monday, council staff recommending they stick with the decision they made last year to limit vehicle access to a few hours a day.

Dunedin city councillors will next month decide the final fate of John Wilson Ocean Dr - again.

The debate over access to Dunedin's John Wilson Ocean Dr may be rekindled after city councillors resolved to look again at a barrier arm, after deciding last year it would be too expensive.

Sled dogs and skiers could become a regular feature of John Wilson Ocean Dr in Dunedin if one submitter to the Dunedin City Council's annual plan/long-term planning process gets his wish.

Firefighters extinguished a small grass fire on John Wilson Ocean Dr in Dunedin yesterday.

Motorists will again be driving along John Wilson Ocean Dr next year, after emotional arguments and pleas to compromise at yesterday's Dunedin City Council meeting won the day - by just a single vote.

At last, following Monday's Dunedin City Council meeting, the long-running issue of what to do about John Wilson Ocean Dr has been laid to rest. Or has it?

The two-and-a-half-year debate over the future of John Wilson Ocean Dr in Dunedin could be about to come to an end.

A petition signed by more than 1000 people backed fresh calls for John Wilson Ocean Dr to be reopened to vehicles.