My experience of riding on Christchurch cycleways is that you are actually safer to have to give way to cars as you can never be quite sure if the cars are going to give way even when they are meant to. When I first started riding my bike on the cycleways all the lovely green paint gave me a false sense of security. After having had numerous near misses with cars racing across cycleways without even looking for cyclists I now have a strict policy that I treat every motor vehicle as if it is out to kill me. I figure that legally being not at fault is of no use to me if dead.

Trpt for Chch are certainly confused, and I got the original advice directly from Ōtākaro staff. As you note, the bylaws also make clear the exemption, although I could happily leave out the two-way on-road provision for the last section towards Hagley/Riccarton Ave.

Ōtākaro didn’t originally want to add extra sign “clutter” to the Promenade, only adding it later if need be. Personally I don’t think a few small contra-flow cycling signs at the start/end of each block are very jarring to the layout, but certainly would add a lot of clarity…

Aargh, a goblin (me, putting the URL in angle brackets) has removed all links from my comment. Anyways, the most important one is the last one to my discussion with the Transport in Christchurch people: https://www.facebook.com/TransportChCh/posts/2329003927331163?comment_id=2329189663979256&reply_comment_id=2329298860635003

Not so great in the wet winter on either side though; still waiting for them to produce an all-weather riding surface here…

Could it be Dirk for the same legal reason that the cycle path along Collins Street requires cyclists to give way to traffic turning in and out of both Macaulay and Emerson Streets ? If so, I think the law needs looking at. A little niggle at the roundabout going north along the shared path on the east side of Antigua is that the line of sight to the Antigua Street Bridge is to shoot onto the roundabout, avoiding that crossing and all of the pedestrians up until the bridge approach. Until you get to the kerb, that is and either have to dismount, or return back to the shared path. I know the reasoning behind this, but it is an irritation all the same.

Oxford Tce is not an arterial or major route of any kind for car traffic, yet cars are given priority over people using a major cycle/pedestrian route. Is this a fault of our outdated traffic laws or just the typical incompetence of Otakaro planners?