Comments on: Return to Chch: We cross Live now to our Papanui/St Albans correspondent

By: LennyBoy

LennyBoy — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:43:13 +0000

In reply to rob5chch6. If you look at the CCC construction plans, there is an unsealed driveway running parallel to the pathway at the north end that provides access to a couple of properties (actually technically it's still part of Grassmere St there). I suppose if pathway demand really got high you might see some path users taking advantage of the extra capacity there; formal improvement by Council would be another matter again I guess.

By: rob5chch6

rob5chch6 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:28:37 +0000

Hi Joy . The land to the left of the excavator I would expect to be privately owned. The strip of land purchased by CCC for this route was several years prior to the Major Cycleway project evolving at a time when high spec requiremants other than ‘ a path ‘ of some description would have been considered. There may well be areas of the 550m section wide enough for a dual pathway but I guess for consistency and budgeting the shared path option was favoured. The land to the east route will eventually become part of the Crandford Basin water run off management plan for the area , as part of the Northern Arterial Extension on the east side of Cranford Street.

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:48:33 +0000

I don’t know the area at all well but can you verify that the large area the excavator is on is to be landscaped as in the second photo. It seems like there is enough space for non-shared paths to have been put in otherwise.

By: Meerkat

Meerkat — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:17:15 +0000

Excellent update, thanks.