News: tagged with "cycling"
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- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 16th May 2022
Christchurch City Council has approved three projects that will make it easier and safer for people to get into the central city by bike
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 16th May 2022
Two new signalised crossings on Humphrey’s Drive will provide safe crossing points for people using the Rapanui/Shag Rock cycleway
- Canterbury farmers and growers are being urged to make use of a subsidised programme to return their unwanted or expired agrichemicals.
Agrecovery will be running several chemical recovery events in the Canterbury region throughout June 2022
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 9th May 2022
Improvements are in the pipeline for the way treated wastewater is managed at the Banks Peninsula settlement of Duvauchelle.
The treated wastewater is currently discharged to Akaroa Harbour
- Things have changed but it’s not the end…
Over the past 12 years, notwithstanding bad weather, earthquakes and plagues, Frocks/ Friends on Bikes has endeavoured to deliver at least one ride or cycling-related event every month
- Waimakariri District Council media release: 5th April 2022
After a three year pause in service, the team at The Packaging Forum recently confirmed that Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme will return to stores in Rangiora in early April
- Recycle A Device (RAD) is an initiative which gets laptops to those who need them
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st March 2022
A multi-million dollar upgrade of the plant where recyclable items collected through Christchurch’s kerbside collection are sorted and readied for sale is about to get under way
- Waimakariri District Council media release: 30th March 2022
Community spread of COVID-19 means short-notice changes to Transfer Stations should be expected in the next week or two
Solid Waste Asset Manager Kitty Waghorn says “Today we have enough staff to
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 24th March 2022
Christchurch City Council has approved funding for the final section of the Heathcote Expressway – the major cycleway that will link the Heathcote Valley to the city centre
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 3rd February 2022
Agreement has been reached on the route for the third and final section of the Te Ara O-Rakipaoa: Nor’West Arc cycleway
- Batteries cannot be placed into any of your kerbside or wheelie bins. They can cause bin and truck fires. Truck fires result in the whole load being sent to landfill - rather than getting recycled
- Ministry for the Environment media release: 2nd February 2022
New Zealand has joined other countries in stating support for coordinated global action to combat marine plastic pollution through a new global agreement
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th December 2021
If the very thought of the post-Christmas clean-up has you breaking out in a sweat, we’ve got some handy tips to help make the job easier
- Feature Ride: Bexley Reserve and BMX Pump Track
We’ll ride through the red zone to Bexley, have a play on the Bexley Pump Track (unless it's too wet), check out the Bexley Reserve.
There will be a refreshment stop at Level One
- Recycle A Device - or RAD - is an Aotearoa initiative which matches those who need a laptop with a donated and refurbished device
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 23rd November 2021
The return of foot and cycle access across the Ōtākaro Avon River at Medway Street is another step closer after the new Medway Street Bridge span was successfully lifted into place by crane yesterday
- Christchurch City Council Newsline: 4th November 2021
The final section of the Heathcote Expressway cycleway has been given the go ahead, with construction on it expected to start early next year
- Recycle A Device (RAD) is an Aotearoa-based initiative aiming to close the digital divide by bringing laptops and tech engineering skills to students and young people who need them
- Biketober Friends Feature Ride Week 3: Wednesday Wheelies Rides
Wednesday Wheelies are a group very similar to Friends on Bikes except that they meet on Wednesdays rather than weekends, and participants tend to be (ahem) a tad older and a tad more retired
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