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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Thursday <strong>February</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong> 3<br />
‘Cycleway won’t destroy<br />
local businesses’ – Dalziel<br />
Have Your Say<br />
What do you think of<br />
the cycleway plan?<br />
Email bea.gooding@<br />
starmedia.kiwi<br />
MAYOR LIANNE Dalziel<br />
has promised a planned new<br />
cycleway won’t destroy local<br />
businesses.<br />
The owners of the Copenhagen<br />
Bakery are unhappy with<br />
the loss of car parks to make<br />
way for the Wheels to Wings<br />
cycleway.<br />
The loss of<br />
parks is due<br />
to a proposal<br />
as part of<br />
the cycleway<br />
to narrow<br />
Harewood<br />
Rd from four<br />
lanes to two.<br />
Dalziel told<br />
Chris Lynch<br />
on <strong>News</strong>talk<br />
ZB they are<br />
Lianne<br />
Dalziel<br />
holding a genuine public consultation<br />
on the plans.<br />
“I have heard people make<br />
comments that this is a slam<br />
dunk, it’s a foregone conclusion,<br />
I just wanted to mention . . . the<br />
Papanui Parallel cycleway from<br />
Northlands Mall to the central<br />
city, more than 80 changes were<br />
made to that.”<br />
Dalziel said she will personally<br />
go and speak to the owners of<br />
the Copenhagen Bakery.<br />
The cycleway is expected to<br />
provide a connection for local<br />
cycling trips in the Harewood,<br />
Bishopdale and Papanui suburbs.<br />
Street parking will be reduced<br />
to three parks outside Copenhagen<br />
Bakery on Harewood Rd.<br />
Owner Donna Thomsen told<br />
PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
Lynch elderly customers and<br />
tradies rely on street parking<br />
when the 12 on-site parks are<br />
full.<br />
“Of course the kids need to be<br />
safe and I do love to see bums on<br />
bikes but the democracy of the<br />
process is very disingenuous. We<br />
only got approached last week.<br />
“This will annihilate our business.”<br />
The view of Harewood Rd<br />
from the Copenhagen Bakery<br />
where it is proposed four lanes<br />
be reduced to two.<br />
The removal of on-street parking<br />
is a key part of the wider<br />
plan.<br />
City councillor Aaron Keown<br />
said the exact number of parks<br />
that are expected to be removed<br />
is not known but it is “most”.<br />
Keown said the entire<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community Board, which he is a<br />
member of, opposed the plan.<br />
“When you hold up traffic and<br />
keep it on the road for longer, it<br />
uses more carbon so it’s a bit of<br />
a farce when we claim climate<br />
change and say we’re going to<br />
save the planet.<br />
“A big chunk of the population<br />
isn’t going to use the cycleways<br />
so they’re [council] going to try<br />
and force them out of cars and I<br />
think the public is smart enough<br />
to know that that’s the agenda<br />
that seems to be going on.”<br />
Keown said the cost of the<br />
plan, an estimated $20 million,<br />
is far beyond what the community<br />
board was expecting.<br />
“It makes no sense.”<br />
Reader Dianne<br />
Downward responds<br />
to the cycleway plan<br />
I would like all road users to<br />
be safe.<br />
However, I don’t think<br />
turning a busy four-lane road<br />
into a two-lane road to make<br />
way for an over engineered<br />
cycleway, paid for by cars, is the<br />
answer to traffic congestion and<br />
cycle safety.<br />
I strongly feel those who are<br />
pushing for us to cycle and ride<br />
the bus need to lead by example.<br />
This includes the mayor and all<br />
the People’s Choice councillors<br />
and their staff, including the<br />
roading engineer.<br />
There are plenty of cargo<br />
bikes and weather proof trailers<br />
for bikes that will carry any gear<br />
they need that doesn’t fit into a<br />
backpack, or they can take the<br />
bus.<br />
They can be true leaders and<br />
do what they want the rest of<br />
us to do with no complaints<br />
or excuses, starting now,<br />
they can cycle to the public<br />
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