The Strategic Transport Study was out for public consultation and comments are all in. This has been a joint New Plymouth District Council and Transit New Zealand project to come up with a plan to manage the district’s road developments for the next 25 years and beyond.
Traffic Design Group, which developed the document, has found that with the exception of Northgate/Waiwhakaiho the city’s road network capacity is generally adequate to handle the growth in traffic flows for the next 40 years.
To improve the eastern corridor, the strategic transport study proposes a number of extra lanes and some intersection changes from Hobson St through Northgate and Devon Rd to Vickers Rd.
All of the road developments are intended to have dedicated cycle lanes and provisions for cyclists along their length in line with the council's Cycle Strategy. Is that really the case and is it the best way for cycling infrastructure money to be spent?
The next step is that the submissions are reviewed by the NPDC officers, and a report on everyone's feedback will go to the Policy Committee on Tuesday 1 July 2008.
We have a chance to speak in support of our in front of the Policy Committee on that day.
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