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11 February 2000 |
The Christchurch City Council hopes to arrest the decline of cycling commuters.
It says in a newly published "Cycle Strategy For Christchurch City" by the Streets Unit, that its object is to increase commuter cyclists from 8 per cent of the population to 13 per cent next year and up to 20 per cent by 2006.
A decline has been seen from the 11.71 per cent in 1981 to the 1996 level of 7.97 per cent.
However, it hopes to increase the percentage of recreational cyclists, both on and off the road, from 20 per cent in 1998 to 25 per cent next year, and to 40 per cent in 2006.
The strategy says Christchurch could be more cycle friendly. "While our roads are not busy by international standards, they are busy enough to be off-putting to some cyclists and potential cyclists, and the city’s smog is discouraging."
The Council’s efforts to make the city a more cycle friendly city will be guided by the strategy.
The first strategy was published in 1996 and it provided the "driving force behind the City Council’s efforts to improve cycling in the city since then."
The new strategy builds on the lessons learnt from the first.
"With this new strategy it is intended that the Council’s efforts to improve cycling in the city will advance with new vigour," it says.
The 35-page booklet is available from the Civic Offices in Tuam Street, and at services centres and libraries.
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