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It looked (at first blush) like Christchurch would gobble up around half the money earmarked by the government for projects to get us on our bikes.
Julie Anne Genter, Associate Minister of Transport and a Green with a fondness for two-wheeled, pedal-driven transport, today banged out two press statements.
One of these, headed Green light for Te Awa River Ride in $220m nationwide cycleways investment, triggered the Point of Order Trough Monitor.
We quickly established that just a few of those $220 million are actually being invested in the Te Awa Ride.
The second statement was headed Six major ‘shovel-ready’ cycleways funded in Christchurch.
No figure was mentioned in the heading, but big bucks were bandied in the text of the statement.
Genter advised that six major cycle routes will be completed in Christchurch thanks to funding from the Government’s investment in shovel-ready infrastructure…
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