Western News: June 27, 2017

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Your Local Views
Readers respond to last
week’s article regarding
a city council plan to
lower speed limits around
Canterbury University to
make
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it safer for cyclists.
Vaughan Rowe – that won’t
make the roads any wider, nor
people drive safer, nor cyclists
ride safer! Sadly.
some point to motor vehicles to
reduce the number competing
with the cycleway. However, the
best solution would have been
to build a separate cycle path
on this route like the rest of the
cycleway and that would shut up
the forever moaning car drivers
who see it as their right to drive
everywhere and at speeds that
suit them.
Gayle Elizabeth Lord – At
the rate they are going the city
council will have the whole city
at 30km.
Fashion
There are schools all
over the city without a lower
speed limit so why do university
students need this? Motorists
need to pay attention and
cyclists need to also. Have seen
some dangerous behaviour from
both.
Pamela Neil – Cyclists need
to pay
Gardening
registration! That is being
considered Brisbane. They use
the roads for nothing!
James David Foote –
Cyclists pay for the roads too.
We pay our taxes, we pay GST
every time we buy something.
We live in our homes that we
pay
Motoring
our council rates on. Most
of us also own a car that we pay
our registration on as well as
fuel taxes when we fill up. By being safe.
promoting and encouraging
cycling, you add capacity to
roads without having to spend
millions by building new ones.
The university has a much larger
student body than schools do
and have students coming and
going all day. The entrances to
schools are busy at 9am and
3pm, they have lower speed
limits at those times as well as
road patrols, which is enough.
Trevor Taylor – I think we
should have someone carrying
a red flag walk in front of every
car and truck in Christchurch.
That way we will be able to
eliminate all vehicles crashes.
Nothing is more important than
Lucinda Rees – How about
30km/h speed limits outside
schools too as recommended by
the World Health Organisation.
Drivers just need to get used to
this speed limit, as they have
done in Europe. The traffic keeps
moving, but at a safe speed.
Wendy Charlotte Olivier
– I have to laugh at this idea,
people don’t even keep in the
speed limits in a school zone.
Bicycles are not meant to be on
the roads, it is not fair to put that
responsibility on a driver as well
as all the other rules they have to
keep to. I think cyclists have too
much privilege and I think this
needs to stop.
Jason Gemmill – Absolutely
insane! Total madness!
SLOW DOWN:
The proposed
area around the
university where
the speed
limit could be
reduced. ​
Anna Henderson – Yes
good idea. A large number of
university students cycle (which
is a great thing). It’s also very
much encouraged by the uni
which puts the parking prices up
exceedingly high on purpose to
discourage driving. Two of my
flatmates have been knocked off
their bicycles by cars who were
completely in the wrong and just
didn’t look. At least if they’re
going slower it might help.
Graham Batchelor –
Slowing traffic on this part of
the Unicycle should have been
part of the original design. I also
think that this route which is
used as a rat run from Clyde Rd
to Kilmarnoch St be blocked at
David Butler – Doesn’t work
here, you have the chance now
to build proper cycle paths like
Amsterdam. Cars and bicycles
don’t mix.
Tanya Hyde – Not sure if
lowering the speed limit would
help decrease the number
of accidents as it’s ignorant/
inconsiderate driving or
cycling that’s the cause. But if
a lower speed limit reduces the
seriousness of accidents then
that’s a start. But we need better
education for both motorists and
cyclists on keeping them safe
on the road. If both switched
places for the day they would
understand the other side. I
drive and cycle in the city and I
find it scary being a cyclist and
uneasy driving around cyclists.
Mel Schmidt – Making the
speed limit for cars lower won’t
affect the sheer arrogance of
cyclists who think the road is
theirs.
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