Month: June 2023

Full copy: June 2023 Rolleston Avenue & Park Terrace Cycleway memo to the Waipapa Community Board

This week Council staff provided our Community Board with a memo to brief us on the Rolleston Avenue and Park Terrace facilities as a result of the Canterbury Museum redevelopment. There’s ongoing strong pubilc interest in this, especially in relation to the Park Terrace section of cycleway.

The information in this memo is not confidential and can be made public, so to serve public interest I’m sharing the full memo here.

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Council confirms overwhelming support for Wheels to Wings cycleway: 236 submitters say #LetsGetOnWithIt, 27 agree with delay

Further to my article last month (Strong cycleway support in Annual Plan submissions), here’s a more formal analysis of submissions on the Wheels to Wings cycleway contained in feedback on the Council’s draft Annual Plan, as provided by the Council’s Monitoring & Research unit.

In total 816 submissions were received on the Annual Plan, and 304 of these give feedback on the proposal “not to begin construction on the Wheels to Wings cycleway for 12 months”. 236 submissions oppose a delay, while just 27 submissions support.

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