Comments on: National Land Transport Programme has a bumper crop of cycleways https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2018/09/17/national-land-transport-programme-has-a-bumper-crop-of-cycleways/ Regular people riding bicycles Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:23:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Robert https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2018/09/17/national-land-transport-programme-has-a-bumper-crop-of-cycleways/#comment-14719 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:18:43 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=18306#comment-14719 At the risk of sounding a tiny bit underwhelmed by this announcement, ( it seems to be little more than affirmation of funding already expected to continue to roll out the current MCP programme) a ‘wow’ announcement could have read something like.

Govt recognises the already emerging and future benefits of the MCR project currently underway for Christchurch and promises to fill in the obvious gaps in the near future. Preliminary planning will be funded for a future route to service the NE suburbs of east St Albans, Shirley and Burwood , allowing a safer cycling route into the central city comparable in service to the other already completed routes.

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