Via The Press, Civil Defence has been removing cyclelanes in order to “improve” traffic congestion. Immediately after the earthquake, I noticed that most people were travelling down my street in Riccarton by bike or on foot. By the end of that week, traffic congestion became massive however. There’s no argument here that congestion has been incredible – I’ve spent double or triple my usual commute time sitting in traffic over the past few weeks, especially around the Curletts/Yaldhurst/Riccarton roads area (in a bus, of course!). But removing bikelanes is completely the wrong step – every bike is one less car on the road, and we should be encouraging bike use through the provision of safe routes. The traffic will still get held up at the intersections and bottlenecks as it always does, but there will be even less incentive for people to bike instead.
Civil Defence has said it will replace the cyclelanes once congestion has returned to normal – but I have my doubts.
marsoe
Christchurch Transport Blog 
Jalanda
April 14, 2011
Dear Civil Defence,
Are you out of your mind? Have you had a labotomy? It seems the logic part of your brains have been removed….
– Jalanda
jhumm
April 16, 2011
There is really no advantage to removing cycle lanes to ‘ease congestion’ at this time. In fact, where possible we should be getting as many people to bike whenever they can, rather than drive. I can understand trying to make clearways for emergency vehicles, but this doesn’t sound anything like such a concept.
Justin
December 16, 2012
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