> On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Bob W wrote: > > > It's a good idea, though. They've done that quite successfully in > > Paris, and > > of course there are 'rail trails' in most countries > nowadays outside > > the > > cities. > > Earlier this year our beloved PM championed the idea of a big > cycleway > the entire length of the country. Until the numbers came in (it'd > cost maybe a few percent of any one big-city roading project). Now > it's apparently going to be a patchwork of smaller trails. > > I want to do the Otago Rail Trail one of these days. Either go nuts > and do the whole thing in a day, or do it at a more leisurely pace > with a medium format rig and lots of stopping along the way. >
is there an extensive network of lanes and small roads in NZ? One of the good things about Europe being so old is that the network of roads and bikeable tracks is so extensive that it's not really necessary to purpose-build such things - it's mainly just a matter of labelling. For instance, Sustrans in the UK are coordinating the National Cycle Network, which really just means putting up some road signs and fancy mileposts in nice places. At the same time another organisation is creating the National Byway, which has a slightly different brief from Sustrans (better for touring cyclists). The CTC of course has been publishing routes for about 150 years - they published my favourite book of routes in the early 80s, and it's still valid in most respects. Once you start to find out about these things and explore them it opens a completely new universe and gives you a whole new way of seeing the world around you. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
