Ridiculous: Circling the block for minutes
Can we please stop building bike lanes in the central city already? If I am going to go to the effort to drive my car into town, I expect the convenience of getting a car park directly outside my coffee shop of choice.
I do not expect to circle the block for literally minutes looking for a free spot before deciding it’s easier to park in an actual car-park building, like an animal.
While we’re at it, can we please stop all this nonsense about encouraging people to move to Christchurch? We are going to have enough new cars on the road once we remove the bike lanes and those wimpy cyclists start driving like the rest of us.
Can you imagine what it would be like if a few thousand more people started driving as well? Christchurch is a small village and the council needs to accept that instead of thinking ‘‘long term’’ and ‘‘planning for the future’’.
They are blindly pretending that we are a growing city instead of a shrinking backwater. Ridiculous.
I feel like the Left-wing progressives are the ones driving this with their clean energy and pro-climate philosophies. Well, if Brexit and Trump have taught me anything, it’s that all of your ‘‘facts’’ and ‘‘logic’’ aren’t worth a penny if you don’t have the numbers.
So have fun with your ‘‘long-term vision’’ and ‘‘liveable cities’’, the majority of us who value short-term convenience will be loudly complaining until the council stops all rubbish. Jacob Duval
Halswell