Comments on: Hey world, have you heard of Christchurch?!

By: Robert Fleming

Robert Fleming — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:04:44 +0000

I guess it’s a bit like reading the award badges on a bottle of wine; you’ll never really be able to pass judgement until the last drop is drunk. We’ve got ( getting ) something pretty awesome in Christchurch for biking going on. So long as we keep at it, what the rest of the world decides about cycling in their cities isn’t that very important.

I’ve thought for ages that ChristchurchNZ is a little blind to the potential that Christchurch as a city has for passive cycle related tourism ( as opposed to the sexier active and adventure cycling ). Older people like to bike too and make valuable visitors if you can provide them with a good time.

How about deleveloping and promoting a 360 Trail around the city for bikes ? Perhaps two categories – one flat riding, and one incorporating the Port Hills. What a way to see the city in 7 days AND include shopping, cafes, parks and gardens and all the other attractions on offer.

By: LennyBoy

LennyBoy — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:53:28 +0000

In reply to Jim Pickles.

Yes, getting anything updated in Google Maps these days is an exercise in frustration, now that you can’t do it yourself via the old Google Map Maker tool. You have to submit info about things that are missing/wrong for someone else to review and verify (which doesn’t always happen, even when it’s clearly incorrect). I’ve managed to get a few things updated this way but it’s slow going… In that respect, the OpenStreetMap platform is better in that it’s open-source and anyone can make additions/edits immediately – I understand that the Chch City cycle map is based on this…

By: Jim Pickles

Jim Pickles — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:14:37 +0000

Thanks for a very interesting article which raises the question – do we really live in the Information Age or the Disinformation Age?
For people who don’t live in Christchurch, their go-to site for info on cycling here is almost certainly the same as mine is for their cities – Google Maps. Just turn on the biking layer to see the extent of facilities then drop in to street view to check the quality and ridership.
But when you do that for Christchurch the information is, as it always has been, woefully out of date. In our area of town long stretches of bike lanes on Madras St, Barbados St, Edgeware Rd, Westminster St and many others are completely missing, not to mention major cycleways like the Papanui Parallel which is also completely missing.
The city council website looks pretty much up to date – https://ccc.govt.nz/transport/getting-around/cycling/cycling-maps/
Maybe somebody out there knows how Google Maps gets updated and can do something about it?

By: William Godsoe

William Godsoe — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:40:42 +0000

My elderly parents are in town to visit from Canada. They didn’t plan their trip around cycleways, but they have been a real boon. They’ve made it easy to get to all the sites down town along with the grand kids and given them easy acces to parks and shopping.