Southern View: September 19, 2017

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Improving ways to get
people from home to work
ews
Halswell Residents’
Association
secretary David
Hawke writes about
Halswell, recent
changes
ashion
and its
future
WE ALL know that
Halswell, towns and suburbs around
Christchurch’s west will keep growing.
So, we have to work out how to get people
from where they live to where they work.
I’ve recently done some counting at
the Lincoln Rd and Whiteleigh Ave
intersection in the morning rush hour.
People on bicycles make up nine per cent
of the traffic entering Addington village,
Gardening commutes. Doubling the frequency of the
and 11 per cent are on the bus. The rest of buses from 15 minutes to seven to eight
us are in cars, and 80 per cent have just
the driver.
There are two ways of approaching this
problem. First, the big solution. Forget
the new motorway; people I know in
Rolleston are eagerly awaiting it so they
can zoom
otoring
into the central city, so the motorway
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spoken to are enthusiastic because it
would enhance their community.
Alternatively, there could be lots of little
solutions. Did you know that secondary
school principals will no longer take
out of zone students? This will cut down
the hauling that happens every school
day. Then, there is continuing to grow
the city’s cycleway network, and e-bikes
may get to be really important for longer
minutes would help too, but this starts to
look like a convoy.
What about car sharing? Sadly, people
these days often don’t know their neighbours
so they are hardly likely to share
a car with a person living blocks away.
Applying a levy on sole occupancy cars
at rush hour might encourage this sort of
chumminess, but does city council have
the political will?
So, we are left with politically difficult
alternatives. Pay for light rail, or charge
single occupancy vehicles. Personally, I
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