Working with ECan, we're helping to encourage the people of Greater Christchurch and Timaru to have their say on the future of public transport as part of The Regional Public Transport Plan.
He tawhiti te tuhinga me tētahi mahere 3-5 tau me te kitenga 30 tau, e pupuri ana i ngā tono mō ētahi atu pahi i runga i ngā ara auau tiketike ake, te whakaurunga o ngā mehua hei whakawātea i te haerenga o ngā pahi i a rātau haerenga, he tauwhiro ki ngā waka kohu kore me te hanganga o ngā pānui tere ā muri ake nei.
Hei tīmata i te kōrerorero, i tonoa e mātau he Rā Pahi Koreutu i te Rā Kore Motokā o te Ao Whānui. Ka whakamāramatia e Stewart Gibbon, te Kaiwhakahaere Matua o te Waka Tūmatanui i Taiao Canterbury te angitu o te takahanga me te tikanga mō te wā heke mai o ngā waka tūmatanui i Greater Christchurch me Timaru. "E 15,672 anō ngā haerenga i runga i te whatunga. Ki te whakaaro koe he hokinga mai ia haerenga, tata ki te 8,000 ngā tāngata tāpiri e whakamahi ana i ngā pahi, kaua ko ō rātou motokā. He tino rawe te āhua o ngā pahi, me te tokomaha o ngā tāngata i waho me te hākinakina i te wāteatanga i tukuna e tā rātou haerenga pahi - ā, ko te kite i te nui o te whiringa e whakaatu ana he whiringa whai hua te waka tūmatanui ki te whakamahi motokā".
He mea nui ki a tātau katoa te wā heke mai o te waka tūmatanui, otirā i te tipu haere tonu o Greater Christchurch me Timaru. Mēnā kāore anō koe, kia whai kōrero mō te wā heke mai o ngā waka tūmatanui pāwhiri ki konei.