Comments on: First Look: Southern Motorway Cycleway (Pt.1) https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/ Regular people riding bicycles Fri, 15 Apr 2022 03:03:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Graham https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/#comment-383 Wed, 08 May 2013 01:24:31 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=2432#comment-383 I checked it out the other day after reading this. Yes the off road section is very good but….. I did not enjoy the Hornby end at all on the footpath and it seems to go nowhere in particular – just to roads with lots of unpleasant heavy traffic. And the Curletts road end is very inconvenient. If you want to go to Lincoln road – that is great. But if you want to go to Riccarton then you are directed on to a busy Wigram road with trucks rolling past before entering a path again along Curletts road. However if you want to carry on towards town then forget it. You would have to go out to Lincoln road, travel down it a bit then into Annex road and back to the under pass to meet with the bike path again – very inconvenient indeed.
So my take on it is that it is a great start but each end needs follow up to make it useful.

]]> By: Pamela https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/#comment-382 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:37:33 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=2432#comment-382 Rode this with the family a couple of months ago and very impressed with the off-road bit. I now use it for walking in the weekends. Well lit, secure and a pleasure to use. Also love seeing young families out using it for recreational biking!!

]]> By: Cyclomaniac https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/#comment-381 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:38:32 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=2432#comment-381 I have had look at these new paths and some of them actually remind me of cycle paths in Holland. While there might be room for improvements I think it is definitely progress!!! Thanks for posting Lenny.

]]> By: Malcolm https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/#comment-380 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:14:04 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=2432#comment-380 The on-road stuff looks pretty shoddy but the off-road path looks amazing! Hope to ride it one day.

]]> By: Lennyboy https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/#comment-379 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:48:27 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=2432#comment-379 In reply to Matthew.

Generally I didn’t find the noise too bad; that extra 5-10m from the roadway helped minimise the noise impact. It’s even better alongside the raised sections at the eastern end, where the embankment and solid barriers keep the noise down a lot (and probably more once some planting comes through.

]]> By: Matthew https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/03/20/first-look-southern-motorway-cycleway-pt-1/#comment-378 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:21:50 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=2432#comment-378 It looks good, apart from the missing path where it says to follow the shoulder, but how’s the noise from the motorway?

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