Safer cycling: say Yes And to the missing link
Gorgeous Tahitai, the safe biking / scooting path from the city centre to eastern suburbs, has just one bit left! But it needs your support
This is a good good thing. Please submit and say you support.
Say Yes!
Despite its out-and-out awesomeness, this last section (Greta Point to Cobham Drive) is facing organised headwinds. You know the drill… mostly fears about parking.
So it’s really important to say out loud: Yes, this important route needs to work for everyone – so Yes to this project making it attractive and safe for people walking, scooting, wheelchairing and biking.
The most important thing you can do is take a couple of minutes to make a submission and say YES you support this project.
Do it before 5pm Tuesday 12 October – then join us at Urbanerds!
Yes, And!
If you have longer, here’s a great AND to add to your Yes…
Help out boaties and beach visitors
We want a more proactive plan from Wellington City Council to mitigate the reduction in on-street parking. There’s lots of parking capacity at the marina, which is Council-owned land… and usually under-utilised. They should work with the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club to find some good solutions.
Protect the bike path
There needs to be more physical segregation from the roadway, to stop vehicles parking on the path. Standard curbs are inadequate to stop many of today’s heavy and “fulltime 4WD” vehicles. We would hope there’s also a continuation of some of the stuff they’ve used on the Cobham Drive path.
Bollards or similar may be needed in some locations. Yay bollards!
Connect to Hataitai
There’s missing connections to Hataitai, where heaps of people live and with awesome cafes, school and so on. We want provision for people to get to and from the new cycling path to Belvedere and Rata Roads, cos a black spot is a black spot and if a lovely route is dangerous to get to, it’ll put you off.
Make the footpath more comfortable
The footpath shouldn’t be hard concrete. Making a more comfortable surface for walking and running will encourage people to use it on foot, instead of being on the bike path.
That’s it! Go you good thing!
This has the potential to be the most awesome lint off road bike path – such a great route to town – Don’t stop now!
Absolutely!