Submitter
Submission id number: 963523
Submitter name:
Robert Porteous
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Do you want to speak to Councillors at the hearings?
No
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I support the Tunnels Trail project to develop a Shared Path/Cycleway between Mosgiel and Caversham. The Tunnels trail project should be given immediate and high priority, without delay, with a focus of delivering operational sections as soon as possible. The tunnels trail is Dunedin's internal transport corridor between the coast and the Plain, as well as our link to the wider Otago cycleway network.
This network will support Dunedin’s work towards a greener future as well as provide a vital link for the Milton-Dunedin-Oamaru cycle way. Not mention a possible link via the Taieri Gorge rail corridor directly to the phenomenally successful Central Otago Rail Trail.
What other ideas should we be thinking about to include in future plans for our city?
A direct cycle link to the central Otago rail trail.
Scrap the expensive and consistently loss making railway and replace it with a cycleway utilising the existing infrastructure.