I'm not sure there exists the package you want, but this code will compute much faster.
>>> arrtrans2 = arr[::2, ::2] + arr[::2, 1::2] + arr[1::2, ::2] + arr[1::2, 1::2]
>>> numpy.allclose(arrtrans, arrtrans2)
True
Where ::2 and 1::2 are translated by 0, 2, 4, ... and 1, 3, 5, ... respectively.