This post came out last Thursday and was also advertised on CiC’s Facebook page on Friday…

Blame OpenStreetMap for the way they position their street labels – if I zoomed in further to get them shown, I wouldn’t be able to see the whole South Frame route. I’d like to think most people know the main north-south streets of central Christchurch though…

The map is hard to understand as s the two main roads the Southern Frame crosses – Colombo and Manchester aren’t labelled.

Good wayfinding is meant to be easy to understand, this isn’t!

But why mention a competition that’s already closed (a day late us still too late)?

For the last 12 years there has been much comment about how the CBD has been developing into a a wasteland; that it is hostile to small businesses and retail is dead because people will always drive to the malls where there is parking. The irony is that if it was a new or used vehicle on your shopping list then the CBD is ( and always has been) absolutely the go-to retail mecca. Gerry Brownlee planned to change that and for that I think he should be commended. Even it it wasn’t to be, this result has to be the next best thing.