ECan (Environment Canterbury)

Hi All:

This submission was made at 10AM 23.9.11 via email. Comments can be made to newsletter [at] spokes [dot] org [dot] nz

Dirk

The web address takes you to a link where you can download the RTC agenda which includes the draft.

Greetings:

Here is the ECan draft annual plan notes and final submission. An oral submission will be made as well.

The Regional Land Transport Strategy (RLTS) is prepared under the requirements of the Land Transport Act 1998. It is intended to contribute to the government’s overall vision of achieving an integrated, safe, responsive, and sustainable land transport system and takes into account other Government transport objectives and strategies. This RLTS sets the direction for land transport over the next 10 years. The RLTS identifies the region’s transport needs, and the roles of all land transport modes and identifies how planning, engineering, education,encouragement and enforcement methods are to be utilised to provide for the future land transport system of Canterbury. This includes the contribution that walking and cycling will make to the overall transport system.

The submission raises a number of issues about the content and direction of the strategy, particularly as it affects cycling. It is open for comment from Spokes Core members until 18 Dec.  It was lodged with ECAN on 20/ 12/2007

Joint agency draft strategy for long-term planning of future growth around Chch: Our submission is also strongly based on our previous submission to the original "Options" consultation document in 2005; this captured our general philosophy in great detail. We urge you to re-review this submission as well , although we will try to encapsulate the key points here. Our comments are largely focused on the transport implications of the UDS, although we appreciate that this is intricately interlinked with many other aspects such as land use, urban design, and environmental effects...

10-year Regional Council plan for funding and programming: Spokes is generally supportive of the aims of this LTCCP and we look forward to its implementation. There are a number of specific points that we will raise below. Despite its high environmental impacts, there still appears to be insufficient priority accorded to regional transport planning at ECan...