Integrated Transport Strategy

Our Key Principles are:

• People should have a choice when it comes to how they travel.
• The transport network should allow for people using any transport mode to move to and from, within, and between our urban areas.
• Providing for alternative modes will give our residents choice and provide a way to reduce vehicle kilometres travelled and related emissions to align with our sustainability commitments

What will we do?

• Establish more connections for walking, cycling and public transport in and between townships and rural areas.
• Plan for growth by identifying where existing multi modal connections are, and where we need better connectivity to key destinations.
• Partner with Environment Canterbury to improve public transport connectivity, coverage and service as well as explore innovative ways to provide public transport e.g., ondemand services
• Introduce requirements for developers of new residential areas to include good connections to public transport and walking and cycling
• Prioritise, increase funding for, and explore alternative funding opportunities for public transport, walking and cycling projects.
• Improve accessibility for all in high pedestrian areas such as around schools and in town centres.
• Enhance the resilience of the transport system through supporting multi-modal options to allow for flexibility and continuity if one mode faces difficulties.

Our Key Principles are:

The design and delivery of a transport network that supports our growth objectives including improving:

• sustainability,
• resilience,
• neighbourhood cohesion and character,
• housing choice.

And to encourage higher-density development and intensification in areas close to key transit corridors that can support alternative modes

What will we do?

• Consider transport implications of housing intensification and ensure planned transport infrastructure supports this
• Collaborate with developers to achieve sustainable mobility outcomes and intensification in town centres and existing residential areas that are close to multi-modal transit corridors.
• Continue to collaborate with Greater Christchurch Partnership to ensure alignment and understanding of wider growth patterns and transport planning.
• Require plans for parking management as part of urban area intensification and collaborate with developers to provide for travel demand management and multimodal facilities.
• Support greenfield expansion where the development will improve transport outcomes or is enabled by good multi-modal transport linkages.
• Develop an intensification plan to influence future intensification in appropriate places that enable a broad spectrum of sustainable transport options to be used.
• Better integrate retirement villages into the urban environment to reduce social isolation.

Our Key Principles are:

• Freight efficiency is essential for our farms, businesses and town centres which are important contributors to the district’s economic prosperity
• Efficient routes for freight will support our town centres and improve safety and effectiveness of our corridors for all modes of transport
• Our freight requirements cannot be met solely via rail. The primary road network can be promoted for freight transportation while reducing the use of local roads
• We will support and enable freight and logistics efficiency to assist the shift toward decarbonisation, which also delivers economic outcomes.

What will we do?

• Collaborate with freight providers to better understand freight movements and transfer locations so we can fully consider the impact on the road network
• Investigate a preferred freight network that bypasses Rangiora and Kaiapoi town centres and review the management of freight movements (e.g. safe stopping point locations) with destinations within our townships
• Better connect our industrial areas / freight hubs to the arterial network and look to upgrade strategic freight routes that service rural areas for primary industries
• Collaborate with Greater Christchurch Partnership and Canterbury Mayoral Forum to align a freight strategy across the wider region
• Investigate the opportunities for Council to support decarbonising freight, for example through supporting infrastructure or looking into the demand for integrated transport, logistics and storage hubs to reduce freight movement.

Our Key Principles are:

• We will partner with Government to implement adopted road safety strategies so that no one should be killed or seriously injured on our roads
• Infrastructure improvements and ensuring safe and appropriate speeds will be central to our approach
• Driver education will also be supported.

What will we do?

• Ensure a proactive approach to implementing national road safety strategies
• Improve infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians, mobility scooter users and others to increase the attractiveness of active transport
• Improve pedestrian and cyclist safety to schools, and work with schools to encourage walking and cycling
• Be prepared for improvements required as demand for active transport increases.
• Continue to review speed limits and implement changes to ensure they are safe and appropriate, prioritising areas where the greatest safety benefit can be realised.
• Identify and prioritise road safety improvements at key locations for all transport modes.
• Review local road safety initiatives to improve road user education and behaviour.
• Ensure that transportation projects are proactively aligned with Waka Kotahi Safe System Principles.

Our Key Principles are:

• We will work towards ensuring all people can use their preferred mode of transport
• We will balance between investment across all modes, supporting transport choice
• We will reduce light vehicle kilometres travelled and the associated emissions to align with our sustainability goals.

What will we do?

• Increase investment into education and travel behaviour change
• Investigate alternative funding mechanisms to support transport choice and make alternative modes more attractive
• Support more micro-mobility (e.g., e-bikes, e-scooters etc) services and infrastructure, carbon neutral vehicle infrastructure, and travel behaviour change initiatives
• Provide better internal connections to encourage people to use modes other than private car for short trips
• Work with companies, communities, and schools to implement travel demand management plans
• Work with Environment Canterbury to increase understanding of available transport services and options
• Work with schools to establish multi-modal travel behaviour from a young age
• Ensure Council’s Parking Management Strategy optimises parking demand and supply, while continuing to monitor the effectiveness of parking enforcement
• Continue to support the North Canterbury Cycle Sense Programme.