PRESS-RELEASE: The City is Ours welcomes opportunity.

A delegation of transport experts from the Netherlands will visit Christchurch for three days to offer their insight and expertise on Christchurch City Council’s major cycle ways project. Netherlands transport experts and Council staff will conduct a cycle tour of planned and existing facility locations in Christchurch including the possible site of a Dutch style intersection, a treatment used at signal-controlled intersections to improve safety.

Keypoint Consultancy Director Leo de Jong and University of Twente senior lecturer Mark Brussel will tour the city on Wednesday 27 November, from 1.30 pm to 5 pm, and spend time discussing and reviewing proposals for the $68.3 million five-year project. 

A generous sponsorship by the Netherlands Embassy in Wellington brings both transport experts from the Netherlands to our fair City for a one day only visit. They are to meet with Mayor Celia Wade-Brown and council staff amongst others for this rare opportunity; and welcomed by the president of the City is Ours Inc. Maria van der Meel.

The president of The City is Ours Inc, the society which lost the battle for Manners Mall and public safety in the Environment Court in 2010, further discloses these matters are still hanging in the balance with a pending inquest in the Coroners Court. The hearing was scheduled for the 13-14 of August 2013 but vacated after a challenge by Wellington City Council's lawyers; with Coroner Ian Smith recusing himself from the inquest thereafter .

A date for a new hearing into the inquest of Venessa Green, the jogger who was killed as a result of a bus collision in Willis Street on 28 June 2011, is unknown at this point and expected to be sometime in 2014. 

The City is Ours Inc.

Maria van der Meel

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