The Press today has revealed that future cycleway funding has been removed from a draft of the Long Term Plan – the Council’s 10-year budget. Projects proposed to be axed include the already-consulted and approved Wheels to Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū cycleway along Harewood Road, as well as tens of millions of dollars of ‘local connections’ projects to better connect communities with already build cycleways.
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.
Continue reading “Full copy: June 2023 Rolleston Avenue & Park Terrace Cycleway memo to the Waipapa Community Board”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.
Continue reading “Council confirms overwhelming support for Wheels to Wings cycleway: 236 submitters say #LetsGetOnWithIt, 27 agree with delay”Over the past week the Christchurch City Council has been hearing submissions on the city’s draft Annual Plan, and feedback on cycleways, including the Wheels to Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū major cycle route, is overwhelmingly positive.
Last year I wrote to clarify that during the two rounds of public consultation on the Wheels to Wings, only a minority of submissions opposed the project. “How terrible it would be for the community to be denied the cycleway on the basis of this minority opposition?” I said at the time.
Continue reading “Strong cycleway support in Annual Plan submissions”Is the Wheels to Wings – Papanui ki Waiwhetū major cycle route really ‘controversial’, or even ‘very controversial’, as some recent headlines* claimed, following the July decision of the council to approve the cycleway’s scheme design? The evidence suggests otherwise.
Continue reading “Keep Calm and Cycle On: only a minority opposed the Wheels to Wings cycleway”
Simon Britten 