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Strategy To Bring Best Feet Forward
15 August 2007
Strategy To Bring Best Feet Forward
A new publication is set to have Taranaki striding into the future – literally.
The 86-page Regional Walkways and Cycleways Strategy is the first of its type for the region and publication follows its formal adoption by the Taranaki Regional Council.
As well as promoting walking and cycling in general terms, the strategy identifies current and potential routes that together would make up a network offering pedestrian and cycle access to the region’s attractions and population centres.
It also discusses funding possibilities.
“There are many good reasons – health, economic and environmental – for promoting the use of walkways and cycleways, and this strategy provides a solid base for future planning,” says Taranaki Regional Council Chief Executive, Basil Chamberlain.
“Having a strategy like this in place shows that Taranaki is thinking ahead about walkways and cycleways, so we will be able to recognise opportunities when they arise and act upon them.”
The strategy is the result of an extensive consultation exercise by the Taranaki Regional Council that involved input from the New Plymouth, Stratford and South Taranaki District Councils, the Department of Conservation, the Taranaki/Whanganui Conservation Board, Venture Taranaki Trust, Federation Farmers and Transit New Zealand, as well as other interested groups and the public through a submissions process earlier this year.
Mr Chamberlain says the strategy will allow Taranaki to tap into national funds set aside for walking and cycling commuter routes.
Some of the new routes foreseen in the strategy include:
- Extensions to the New Plymouth Coastal Walkway.
-Extensions to the Opunake Coastal Walkway.
-Oakura/Wairau River to Mount Taranaki.
-Waiwhakaiho pipe bridge extension.
-Waiwhakaiho River to Lake Mangamahoe.
-A mountain-to-sea route via the Stony River.
-Stratford to Egmont National Park.
- A South Taranaki coastal pathway and cycling route.
-A cycle route between Hawera and Wanganui.
-Links to Te Araroa, the walkway being developed spanning the length of the country.
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