Meeting About Cycling In Botanic Gardens; Salamanca - Upland

Alastair · *by **Alastair** on Mon 9/Mar/09 6:07pm*

The Wellington City Council (WCC) has agreed to commission an independent assessment of cycling in the Cable Car Prescient of the Botanic Gardens.

Cycling is NOT permitted in the Botanic Gardens, however the WCC are willing to examine the Upland Rd to Salamanca Rd route options in an effort to reach a compromise with the cycling community.

Cyclists are invited to be part of the solution and to attend an Open House at:

Kelburn Scout Den in the Botanic Gardens
5:30 to 7:00pm
Tuesday 24th March 2009.

Contact Tourism Resource Consultants for further information:
Ph 04-472 3114 or jimmy@trcnz.com

sifter · *by **sifter** on Mon 9/Mar/09 6:20pm*

Nice work CAW. I hope to be there...

slowMTB · *by **slowMTB** on Mon 9/Mar/09 6:26pm*

Hmmmmm, anyone know if you can cycle through the ChCh gardens ?

Oli · *by **Oli** on Mon 9/Mar/09 6:34pm*

Great stuff, CAW!

sweet_P · *by **sweet_P** on Mon 9/Mar/09 6:45pm*

Good stuff - I may not be back from a work trip in time, but will come along if I can. I'll email it around work (Met) too, as this will affect a good proportion of the bike commuters.

thorg · *by **thorg** on Mon 9/Mar/09 6:46pm*

It would be handy to ride through there rather than walking my bike.

:paranoid:

Tama · *by **Tama** on Tue 10/Mar/09 8:54am*

Is there anyway for an ex-Wellingtonian who often walked his bike through this link to register their support for this initiative if they currently live somewhere else?

skint · *by **skint** on Tue 10/Mar/09 8:56am*

Tama wrote:Is there anyway for an ex-Wellingtonian who often walked his bike through this link to register their support for this initiative if they currently live somewhere else?

Ditto?

slowMTB · *by **slowMTB** on Tue 10/Mar/09 9:17am*

skint wrote:
Tama wrote:Is there anyway for an ex-Wellingtonian who often walked his bike through this link to register their support for this initiative if they currently live somewhere else?

Ditto?

x3

sifter · *by **sifter** on Tue 10/Mar/09 9:27am*

there was a petition on the WCC site, but I imagine it closed, and motivated this workshop. If alistair doesn't suggest something, perhaps contact the consultant via the email in the first post?

Fango · *by **Fango** on Tue 10/Mar/09 12:42pm*

I'll be there. I wrote a lengthy note to the Council about this and received a discouraging response. This sounds like a way ahead - good work CAW!

jo · *by jo on Tue 10/Mar/09 12:49pm*

Tama wrote:Is there anyway for an ex-Wellingtonian who often walked his bike through this link to register their support for this initiative if they currently live somewhere else?

x4.

I worked at Metservice so went through here fairly regularly.
I know where they were coming from in doing it, there were various weekday warriors racing through during the lunchbreak and upsetting tourists and some of our staff as well.
However, there is a "high road", and a "low road" so separation would be fairly easy to do.

crazychris · *by **crazychris** on Tue 10/Mar/09 1:05pm*

slowMTB wrote:Hmmmmm, anyone know if you can cycle through the ChCh gardens ?

Can through Hagley, but not the Botanic Gardens. It's pedestrian only. You'll get growled at even if you walk your bike through.

tylersdad · *by **tylersdad** on Tue 10/Mar/09 1:15pm*

WTF !!!!
does this apply to all those mum's (and dad's) pushing prams????? i can't really see much difference if they apply the theory......................ooop's forgot, sorry, council rules does not equal theory or practicality.

DrewBroadley · *by **DrewBroadley** on Tue 10/Mar/09 2:21pm*

tylersdad wrote:WTF !!!!
does this apply to all those mum's (and dad's) pushing prams????? i can't really see much difference if they apply the theory......................ooop's forgot, sorry, council rules does not equal theory or practicality.

Unless prams go as fast as the bikes I have seen through there (that have hit staff), then they're not really in the same situation.