Posts by Sacha
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Patrick Reynolds at Transportblog posts about the blueprint's lack of bringing alive the key changes spelled out in the central city plan through integrated transport planning.
A key to making these five aims real would be to make damn sure that the first lines drawn on any page are direct and effective transit links between key sources of vitality and the centre that they are trying to revive. And then of course to continue to design the arrangement of new generators of activity around direct and appealing means of interconnection. That successful land use and good transport links go together is pretty elemental planning.
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Buses will clearly be the best immediate mode to use this new system as they can quickly and cheaply be reintroduced and levels of service ramped up as the rebuild continues. But to not plan for the possibility of upgrading to more appealing and permanent electric systems on key routes such as out to the university and the coast would be singularly short sighted. But the key is the network, the system, not the mode; and in the plan released yesterday there is no sign of any thought about the role that transport plays in in both forming place and the success or otherwise of it.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Hebe,
punt their beloved down the river on a summers day
To be in England in the summertime..
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
Who knows what informed citizens might prioritise for their city?
I note satirical comments already saying 'monorail'
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Which reminds me, what's planned for AMI stadium now?
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to James Caygill,
If people want to get up in arms about private use of the park why don't we get angrier about the CCC continually bailing out the golf course in North Hagley?
I'd welcome public agencies being clearer about their various trade-offs and deals. Who knows what informed citizens might prioritise for their city?
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Press story compares key Share an Idea themes with the blueprint.
Interestingly, the web addresses for Share an Idea and the City Council's cbd plan all redirect to the CCDU site now. Erased.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
convenient
I guess that's one value people might have. More to life than that - and this plan has to work for 20, 50, 100 years, not just today's idea of what is important.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Tuo Lei,
Thanks. Useful.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Ed Muzik,
Will be interesting to see what sort of cost is forecast for a roof
Seems Dunedin will pay some of that cost in further-reduced demand for their own similar venue.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
isn't job #1 to see that people have a place to live and work that they can afford?
Job #1 is to make sure private sector investors (especially bearing foreign currency) have their needs met, hence the flavour of crowd at the launch event. Think of this plan first and foremost as a reassuring investment prospectus. Which is not to say it is necessarily a bad plan for that.