A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
I've been cycling round Gisborne since the 1950s. A bike has always been my primary mode of transport and I currently own three; a funky retro bike with all the bells and whistles, a brand new fold-up electric bike and a beat-up old BMX to ride round the farm.
If
Tony Robinson had any cycling experience he'd know Aberdeen Road is too narrow for his proposed painted lines. It was too narrow when I biked to Girls' High in the 1960s and it's too narrow now that I live near the Botanical Gardens. Even worse, the Roebuck Rd and Lytton Rd intersections are two of the busiest in town. The cycleway neatly solves this, just as it does in Peel Street, by threading itself through the bridge sub-structure.
This major public asset has been delayed far too long and if action doesn't happen soon my bikes and I may be goaded into civil disobedience, like parking on Tony Robinson's head.
Geraldine Oliver
