Hagley rickshaw service?

Press, 3 August 1983, Page 1

Hagley rickshaw service?

A cycle rickshaw service through Hagley Park should be approved in principle, said the Christchurch City Council parks and recreation committee yesterday. Mr Patrick Fitzgerald, a St Albans resident, has proposed the service, which would start at the Chateau Regency in Deans Avenue. Traffic engineers would support the proposal if the route started from Kilmarnock Street, then travelled inside the park along the

cycleway to the Riccarton Avenue memorial gates and under the trees to the Botanic Gardens.

Mr Fitzgerald would stop at the Gardens to allow passengers to get out and walk. He would either wait for them in the Hagiey Park car-park or go round to meet them at the Rolleston Avenue Gardens entrance. A barrier at the western end of the car-park across from the Botanic Gardens would have to be changed to allow the rickshaw to pass. Mr Fitzgerald had originally wanted to take tourists through the Gardens, but that would not be allowed.