Comments on: Guest Post: Wigram / Magdala Overbridge Update

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:09:23 +0000

In reply to David. Excitingly, Selwyn are building a cycleway from Rolleston to Templeton in 2018/19, to coincide with the extension of the Southern Motorway. And the CCC Major Cycleways network is due to extend out to Templeton.

By: LennyBoy

LennyBoy — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 22:23:23 +0000

In reply to Rich.

The Chch Southern Motorway Stage 2 project has a cycle path connection that provides the missing link (follows the motorway, then joins the Little River Trail path). Construction planned to be starting by end of 2016, with completion by 2019. For more details see http://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/christchurch-motorways/christchurch-southern-corridor/christchurch-southern-motorway-stage-2/project-details/

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:54:15 +0000

To link to the Little River trail they still need a path on the 2 km of Springs Road between the end of the motorway and Prebbleton before linking in to the Birchs Road path. There is plenty of room on the shoulder in most places for a path there.

By: David

David — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:14:40 +0000

Thanks for the article Robert. I note your comment about being able to link to the Little River rail trail, however I am disappointed that there will not be a dedicated separated bike path built alongside the Southern Motorway Stage 2 when it is pushed through to Rolleston. The feedback that I have is that once the motorway is extended, the amount of traffic on the local roads will be reduced and hence safer to ride (Main South Road and Shands/Selwyn Roads), however the roads will still be open road with 80-100kph speed limits and not a very wide safety shoulder. I used to live in South Australia and when they built a new 20km section of motorway out to the Barossa Valley, they put in a separate bike path alongside it. It would be great to see this included out to Rolleston. It would encourage more people to ride from there into the city.

By: SW Commuter

SW Commuter — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:11:20 +0000

Thanks for the post. I use Annex Road on my daily commute. Enjoying the new road surface through the lights, but find the Annex northbound green phase to be pretty short. Allows a cyclist to mount and exit the intersection from just before the red signal. I can that this will frustrate the oncoming right-turning traffic (Annex into Magdela) in the future…

By: Cyclomaniac

Cyclomaniac — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 06:45:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing Robert – so looking forward to see this completed!!!