There's a lot to like about the refreshed Wellington City Urban Cycleways Programme At this Thursday's Wellington City Council Transport & Urban Development Committee meeting councillors will consider a paper on the Wellington City Urban Cycleways Programme review and refresh. The paper is a response to the review of Wellington's urban cycleways programme and makes recommendations around the scope, timelines, funding and engagement approach. You can read the complete paper below but here's what I think are the key points:
That's all pretty good stuff. In fact, the only remotely negative things I can think of to say about this refreshed programme are:
Overall, this seems like a sensible & pragmatic refresh of the WUCP and I'm looking forward to unanimous approval from Wellington city councillors tomorrow! Regan. Read the complete paper here:
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Jo
11/8/2016 12:01:11 pm
I'm uncomfortable (as an IB resident) with the IBRA representing me, but what to do? I'm not sure I have the energy to go to their meetings and try and make it representative. Is there room for an Island Bay Progressive Association to be a positive, future-thinking voice for IB? Anyone keen?
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5/10/2016 03:53:04 pm
Hi Jo, a bit of a late reply as I've only just stumbled upon this webpage. Neither IBRA or CAW are representing anyone at the workshops. We simply worked together with WCC and the independent workshop facilitators to come up with a good community engagement process and without influencing our own views. It is now every individual who represent their own ideas and thoughts at the workshops. So far the workshops have gone really well and proving to be a safe constructive environment for the community to work together on planning the future for Island Bay.
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Peter
13/8/2016 09:49:10 am
Suggest you email these concerns to the association committee, consider their reply and then put suggestions forward via forums such as this. I am sure they can accommodate those that can't make meetings. Personally I find them a valuable source of local information from councils and others and the cycleway is only one of many items on the agenda. It was the first time I found out about resilience planning, bus route changes, proposed dogs on the beach policy and the like.
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Jo
13/8/2016 12:46:24 pm
Thanks Peter, that's a good idea.
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Regan
13/8/2016 12:53:36 pm
Also share your thoughts and concerns with the council directly. Phil.Becker@wcc.govt.nz is definitely keen to hear from all parts of the community and is particularly interested to hear ideas about how to reach people not involved in the IBRA.
Jo
13/8/2016 01:42:42 pm
Thanks Regan, I will do that. And thanks for being a consistent voice of reason :-)
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Phil Becker
13/8/2016 09:43:56 pm
I would like to reinforce Regan's invitation to contact me.
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Warren Hall
14/8/2016 09:32:38 pm
I equally hope that it doesn't provide a platform for liberal, facist candidates to grandstand from. But experience suggests that when it comes to politicians grandstanding is an unfortunate reality. Fortunately, the majority of people are able to see this for what it is and make their own informed decisions; which is why, more often than not, consensus is achieved.
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Peter
15/8/2016 09:52:11 pm
The sooner some goodwill is restored in Island Bay the better. There's been 10 years of neglect in my opinion (poor road resealing, overflowing gutters and wasted spaces around Reef St for example) so we need to see some early wins within the next 10 years. Hope to get down to the pop-up space soon.
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