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Crossing to be incorporated into Simeon Street Cycleway project

21 July 2025

Council approved the Simeon Street Cycleway through the government-funded Transport Choices programme at their meeting in September 2023. However, central government pulled their funding for the Transport Choices programme at the end of 2024 following the general election.

Because there was no guaranteed funding for the cycleway, we continued with minor work on Simeon Street - including the proposed crossing - through internal budgets.

Fast-forward to the end of 2024, Council voted to add funding for the cycleway into the draft Annual Plan (https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2024/12/CAPL_20241210_AGN_8609_AT.PDF), which was then approved in June 2025.

The crossing that was consulted on will be incorporated into the wider cycleway project with submitter feedback taken onboard. There will be no unique decision-making for the crossing.

Construction of this section likely to occur over 2027/2028.