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Jon SullivanIf you have to put up a sign asking cyclists to please use your shared pedestrian path, you've designed it wrong.
As a commuter cyclist, I want to get from point A to point B as fast as I can, without dying. Just like a car driver.
When given the option of riding on the road verge, or weaving in and out of people walking their dogs with headphones on and children walking to school and friends walking along chatting to each other, and giving way to cars at every little side road, then I choose the road verge. So do people on road bikes zipping past me at >30 km/hr.
I really like the separated cycleways that Christchurch city has built. They're safe and fast and well used.
I worry about the recent proliferation instead of "shared paths" in new road developments which combine cyclists with pedestrians and discourage bikes from being on the road at all.
Shared paths are useful for children on bikes, if we teach them how to ride around pedestrians, but they're impractical for an adult cyclist trying to travel 20–30 km/hr.
Please, let's keep investing in separated cycleways for cycle commuters. That's what will get more commuters out of cars, not shared paths.
💧🌏 Greg CocksState of Public Outdoor Access Report 2026 [New Zealand]
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"This inaugural State of Public Outdoor Access Report, which provides a comprehensive snapshot of public access to the outdoors across Aotearoa..."
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"This inaugural State of Public Outdoor Access Report, which provides a comprehensive snapshot of public access to the outdoors across Aotearoa..."
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#spatial #mapping #pocketmaps #app #parcels #catalogue #easement #comprise #cadastre #outdooraccess #PublicLand #PrivateLand #accomodation #NewZealand #recreation #landuse #landtypes #outdoorspaces #access #legislation #framework #reserves #authority #paperroads #cycleways #bicycle #hunting #fishing #coast #coastal #mountains #commission #reporting #government #tangatawhenua #indigenous #firstnation #maori #localcouncils #communitygroups #landowners #publicaccess #education #environment #restoration #support #respect #landrights #walkways #tramping #trails #hiking #camping #services #land
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roodHow many cities have found deep infrastructure failures because they build on efforts made by European colonisers?
There have always been issues in every city I have lived in. And it's not just me realising this. Any kid on a bicycle is probably going to notice how badly a city is planned.
I was lamenting one inanity in Albany when I got the response "you sound like my son, he complains about that all the time".
It's because it's a 30 minute ride to get around North Rd to the TAFE. In what could have been a 10 minute ride if they merely connected two laneways between Ulster Rd and Chesterpass Rd.
To be fair though, even Google maps admits that the modern city never finished the original connecting routes.
It's local election year in Christchurch City, NZ, which means we have some politicians, including our self-confessed "petrol-head" mayor, making noise about the city's allegedly high spending on cycle ways. There's a good article today in #ThePress pushing back against that, showing that cycle way spending will be about 0.11% of rates increases. They compare that with the 4.6% rates increase for our new stadium.
What the article doesn't do is compare the city's cycle way and car way spending. I found numbers for the region on the ECan website for the next 10 years, for building and servicing our transport infrastructure. It's 74.3% car spend (mostly road maintenance and improvements), 21.9% public transport (including operating the bus fleets), and 3.3% cycling and walking.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360782234/what-cutting-cycleways-would-really-save-ratepayers
The mayor of Christchurch city, NZ, Phil Mauger, is in the news backing the government’s proposal to cap councils’ rates increases. The article on #RNZ says that Mauger “agreed with [finance minister Nicola] Willis that councils had engaged in wasteful spending”.
Ah, you must be thinking, surely Mauger must mean our $683 million new stadium. That’s a big reason why Christchurch rates have gone up by on average almost 25% during the 3 years of Mauger’s term, while inflation had only risen about 8%.
No, of course not. He’s pointing at our cycle ways. “We've wasted money on how we have designed and built cycleways”. The council has budgeted on average $21 million annually over the next 10 years for cycleway and footpath maintenance and construction.
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Remember that it’s election year this year.
#nzpol #BikeTooter #CycleWays #UrbanPlanning #Christchurch #nz
CLondoner92 (New Account)#Transport for #London (TfL) has announced £87.6m funding for 2025/26 to support all 32 London boroughs and the City of London in making streets safer and more accessible. Part of a three-year programme, the investment will deliver new #Cycleways, pedestrian crossings, and up to 222 School Streets to support active travel. Boroughs, who manage 95% of London’s roads, will also tackle dangerous junctions, expand 20mph zones, and boost bus reliability with 20km of new bus lanes. This is a 9% funding increase on last year and supports the Mayor’s Vision Zero strategy to eliminate deaths and serious injuries from the transport network by 2041.
https://tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-announces-new-gbp-87-million-investment-for-london-boroughs-to-boost-capitals-cycleways-and-make-our-roads-safer
https://tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/tfl-announces-new-gbp-87-million-investment-for-london-boroughs-to-boost-capitals-cycleways-and-make-our-roads-safer
TfL announces new £87 million investment for London boroughs to boost capital's cycleways and make our roads safer
PN-044 TfL agrees three-year programme with all 32 London Boroughs and City of London, with £87.6m funding in place for 2025/26 to deliver projects which will make London safer and more accessible for everyone London’s boroughs have a unique knowledge of their local roads and transport networks and TfL will be working in partnership with them to transform London’s streets for the better Investment will work to deliver new cycle routes, School Streets schemes and pedestrian crossings Renewed action to make our roads safer is part of Mayor's Vision Zero strategy to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries from the city's transport network by 2041
Dave JacksonI walked home from Stafford Park via RandlayValleyLNR,TownPark and LangleyFieldsLNR. The underpasses, bridges, footpaths and #cycleways of the original #Telford #NewTown are amazing as are the #woodlands they pass through.
DrDOne of the most important things today that makes a city liveable and sustainable is a combination of good public transport and cycleways. Melbourne and Sydney have come on leaps and bounds in this regard over the past decade - and Copenhagen sets the benchmark. Wellington should get light rail back on the table - ok it takes major investment and time, but the longterm payoff is absolutely worth it. #publictransport #cycleways
P3KO | Petrified activist 🐧“You’re going to see vehicular assault. You’re going to see road rage incidents. It really feels there’s a target on the backs of cyclists in this city. The premier is playing politics with our safety.”
David Shellnutt,
a lawyer representing injured cyclists
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/ontario-toronto-bike-lanes
