Finishing the ambitious 90km-plus Queenstown trail is the
main focus for the Wakatipu Trails Trust with completion due
next year, chairman Terry Stevens says.
An alternative route has been proposed for the Beaumont to
Lawrence section of the Clutha Gold cycle trail and trust
chairman Rod Peirce is confident it will proceed.
Proponents of the Roxburgh Gorge cycle trail are expecting to
receive a $2 million funding boost from the Government, which
yesterday gave the 34km venture the official thumbs up.
A formal agreement which will secure $2.75 million in
Government money for the Alps to Ocean cycleway has been
approved by the Waitaki District Council.
The patron of the Wakatipu Trails Trust is urging the
community to support a major fundraiser next month, to help
raise $1.8 million towards completing the 109km Wakatipu
Trail.
Cycle trails across Otago will bring almost $10.4 million in
construction work to the province and many millions more in
tourism-related earnings if approved.
Plans to investigate a possible cycleway between Caversham
and Wingatui, via two old railway tunnels, is one of six
Dunedin projects stalled by delays in receiving more than
$700,000 in New Zealand Transport Agency funding.
Cycle trails are the "least invasive form of tourism on the
planet" Clutha Gold Trail Trust chairman Rod Peirce said as
he signed an agreement for $2.54 million in funding for the
project yesterday.
