Trafalgar Street is a disaster. The speed limit is routinely broken and we are constantly threatened by closely following motor vehicles, revving their engine, even when riding above 30 km/h. I know who to thank for the removal of the double cul-de-sac, but I do wonder whether given the clear failure of the current set-up, it might not be time to trial a double cul-de-sac. Let’s just put some planter boxes in the middle of Trafalgar St, and see if Edgeware village really will suffer that badly and a community will be torn apart. Let’s not forget that from the very top of Trafalgar St to the village, it’s a 650 m walk and there is still Springfield St right next to Trafalgar St for those who are unable to walk five minutes and need to use a car to go shopping. Maybe time to lobby the community board and/or our newly re-elected councillor.

I don’t like some surface inconsistencies, signalling inconsistencies ( Colombo Street crossing Bealey Ave ) and the rat running on Trafalgar Street making you feel vulnerable, even if a relatively confident cyclist.

Good to know, thanks Glen.

I don’t like the recently added speed bumps on the St Asaph cycleway near Hagley Ave that almost bounced me off my bike today. Would love to know why cyclists’ safety is less important than the odd car exiting a car park.

Forfar and Warrington will become a signalized intersection. Be ready for “I semi-like the continuous cycle lane between somewhere east of Marshland Rd and Cranford St, but I don’t like how there is no cycling bypass for eastbound traffic on Warrington to bypass the traffic light even though it makes no sense to require people on bikes to stop there and even though this was pointed out to the council staff during consultation.”, probably closely followed by “I don’t like how the shared path on Cranford St does not provide for any eastbound people on bikes who haven’t used the crossing in front of English Park to cycle on high-car-traffic volume Cranford St to connect to Berwick St at the Berwick St/Cranford St intersection”. (see p. 62 here: https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2019/09/CNCL_20190924_AGN_3981_AT.PDF)

Centaurus/Wilson and Forfar/Warrington are roundabouts; standard practice is to stop the cycle lane short so that everyone merges ahead of the roundabout (safer than trying to stick to the left thru the rdbt) – Council need to mark sharrows though to make that clear to people.

Exiting some intersections, we still have the problem of some cycle lane stubs that don’t connect to anything yet and just end up at car parking. Hopefully the long-term fix is to continue the cycle lanes (and sometimes remove car parking if need be to achieve that).

The short answer Alice is the current legal limitations of our traffic rules; flashing yellow arrows have been considered as something to trial here. More details about it all: http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2018/12/17/the-problem-with-cycleways-and-turning-traffic/

Kevlar lined tyres can solve the puncture problem.