November 23rd is the 1st anniversary of BNB’s Facebook page, and to celebrate our birthday Nelson City Council is giving Nelson NZ’s FIRST segregated or buffered cycle path.
Bubbly, anyone?
Ok, a small joke about the birthday gift, but the timing is nice. This is a project carefully nurtured by Andrew James before he was headhunted from NCC by NZTA (although he’s still Nelson-based). Alert readers will have noticed past posts on this page from Christchurch and Dunedin which are also embracing this major shift in cycling infrastructure.
But is not Nelson the true Heart of biking in NZ?
So well done NCC for this NZ first. Look out for work to begin in December. The initial version is fairly low-tech and will have vehicle-priority crossings at the side roads, but it seems that there is agreement that this feature needs to change - and will once funding can be allocated to do the work to make cycle-priority crossings safe. That means things like the raised crossings you see all down the Stoke Railway Reserve.
We, and council, will need your support to take this second step, so watch this space. Meanwhile, we think we can feel a new (baby) path christening coming on….
For more info on this kind of cycle path click on the link below to look at material BNB provided to council in support of this proposal (we worked very closely with council on this project and it was touch-and-go for a bit there...)