While taxpayers will pick up the tab for building the $6.8
million cycleway between Dunedin and Port Chalmers, Dunedin
ratepayers will foot the bill for its maintenance.
Dunedin City Council asset ownership policy engineer Peter
Besuijen yesterday said the main costs were likely to be in
vegetation control, drainage and resurfacing.
He did not expect it to add greatly to the council's
maintenance budget.
The cycleway is being built by the New Zealand Transport
Agency, which is awaiting funding approval for "investigation
and research" of the route.
Agency regional director Bruce Richards yesterday said the
Dunedin office should have the money confirmed "within a week
or two", facilitating resource management and geotechnical
work.
Access negotiations were required with a private land owner
at Roseneath where the cycle way left the rail corridor to
cross a hill to Sawyers Bay.
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