Tauranga City Councillor and mayoral candidate Murray Guy is calling for greater consistency with its policy decisions and actions on walkway and waterfront access.
Murray says a primary outcome for the council in its draft annual plan's walking and cycling strategy is to ensure the city is safe and easy to move around.
Issues include alack of height under the Sebel, the steps up to the Mission Cemetery.
However, he is concerned about the path from Monmouth Street to The Strand.
"The council is developing a historic walkway that might well take that pathway, albeit it is a bit steep," says Murray.
The plan is for people to be able to walk along the waterfront to the Mission Cemetery and back along Cliff Road.
"When the Sebel got resource consent to build out over the water, one of the conditions was they had to maintain access for the community around the waterfront to the mission cemetery."
There is a concrete path under the Sebel against the rock face, but it has less than 1800mm clearance, says Murray, and it is a part of the $1.5 million historic walkway.
"You can walk on it, but you can't jog."
The walkway continues round to what used to be Den Place where the New Zealand Transport Agency has provided steps.
"They are so steep that even a mountain goat would have trouble climbing them."
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Cr Mike Baker
Posted on 17-04-2010 14:01 | By The author of this comment has been removed.
Historic walk unsafe... and they are so steep that even a mountain goat would have trouble climbing them..... yeah right. I would like to ask? Why does Cr. Guy always appear so negative surely there is something that has happened in the over 8 years, that he has been on Council, that he is actually positive about and I look forward towards hearing what it is. There is little that we can now do about the low height, in just a couple of spots, regarding the walikway under the Sebel but lets make the ,most of what we have got rather than forever be negative.
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