The project to build a bike track in a Fairfield park has gained momentum after a design was finalised.
Saddle Hill Community Board member Scott Weatherall said a pump track would be built on a ''sunny'' northern site at Walton Park, near the playground.
Sport Otago and the Dunedin City Council created two concept plans for the board to consider - a pump track and a racetrack.
At a board meeting on August 20, the members were unanimous in their support for the pump track, believing a greater cross-section of the community would use that more than the other.
Deputy chairwoman Pam Jemmett said a racetrack would exclude some smaller children from participating.
''If you have bigger kids roaring around,'' she said at the meeting.
Mr Weatherall said to use a pump track, a cyclist pedalled at the start and then used the momentum and body movement to navigate the track.
When built, the pump track would be the only one of its kind for public use in Dunedin, he said.
Consequently, Walton Park would become a ''go-to venue''.
The board would have liked the track to be built already but council staff changes stalled the project.
"We struggled to get some momentum but I think we are in a pretty good place now.''
Mr Weatherall hoped the track would be open in late February next year.
At the southern end of the park, walking tracks were being built and the Corrections Department was bringing in people to lay gravel on the tracks, among the newly planted native trees.
''In a couple of years' time, it's going to be a really cool place to be.''
The board had had a picnic table installed near the playground and board member Jonathan Usher was working with Fairfield School to select a mural design to paint on the toilet block.
