Chancellor Street / Julius Terrace Renewal

Submission from Spokes Canterbury

Reference: Chancellor Street / Julius Terrace renewal | Kōrero mai | Let’s talk

Date 23 Nov 2025

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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Chancellor Street / Julius Terrace initial consultation

Introduction

Spokes Canterbury (http://www.spokes.org.nz/) is a local cycling advocacy group with approximately 1,300 followers. Spokes is affiliated with the national Cycling Action Network (CAN – https://can.org.nz/). Spokes is dedicated to including cycling as an everyday form of transport in the greater Christchurch and Canterbury areas. Spokes has a long history of advocacy in this space including writing submissions, presenting to councils, and working collaboratively with others in the active transport space. We focus on the need for safe cycling for those aged 8 to 80. Spokes also supports all forms of active transport, public transport, and has an interest in environmental matters.

Response

We support:

• Replacing the deep dish gutters
• Resurfacing the road and footpath
• Upgrading the street lights
• Improving the intersections where necessary

We would like to see:

• A street redesign that makes the road more of a shared space, slow speeds, trees, indented car parks and a more human centred street, rather than cycle lanes.
• Narrowing the street slows speeds but be careful not to force cyclists abruptly into the same space as the vehicles as it is stressful for less confident cyclists. We would prefer to have the option of Bicycle Streets as in the Netherlands where residential streets are designed for pedestrians and cyclists, and it is clear to vehicles that they do not have priority.
• Use sharrows where the road is narrow.
• Cycle lanes are not needed here.
• Add no parking lines at entrances/exits to pathways (e.g. Guild Street to Stapletons Road, Chancellor Street to Chancellor Street (over stream), Julius Terrace to Stapletons Road).
• The entrance to the bridge outside 60 Chancellor St should be more accessible for cyclists and other mobility users. Improve the current cut down and reduce the size of the closed road white barriers so they are not a hindrance to people using the pathway.
• Add a buildout for traffic calming on Chancellor Street between Guild Street and Warden Street.
• Make the road narrower by adding a berm on the road-side of the footpath (effectively making the overall berm wider).
• Use white “No Exit, Except Cyclists, Pedestrians” signs (rather than the “No Exit” signs that are only for drivers of motor vehicles).
• at Guild Street and Chancellor Street.
• The intersection at Guild Street and Chancellor Street needs minor upgrades to better define the footpaths including the addition of low sight treatments. Narrow the intersection similar to Warden street and Chancellor street. Please include continuous footpaths, so that the level of the footpath remains the same across the intersection without dropping down to the level of the road.
• Add a cut-down to the path next to the Shirley Play Centre to allow bikes to enter without a sharp loop on the footpath.
• Signage to indicate you can access Stapleton road from the intersection of Chancellor St and Guild Street.
• Signage to indicate no exit except cycling and walking at intersection of Warden street and Chancellor street
• Signs telling cyclists they can get through at the end of Julius Terrace to Stapleton Road, or get through to Hills Road in the other direction. Update the no exit sign here.
• Increased tree planting.
• The south end of Chancellors Street looks like a legal if narrow road, but it has a sign “no throughfare, residents and visitors only” Cyclists should be able to go through.

Other

• There are speed problems on Slater Street that need to be addressed.

I am happy to discuss or clarify any issues that arise.

Submissions Co-ordinator

Spokes Canterbury

submissions@spokes.org.nz