Transport in Christchurch - Christchurch Tramway System, Christchurch Tramway Routes, Public Transport in Christchurch, Southerner (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Christchurch tramway system, Christchurch tramway routes, Public transport in Christchurch, Southerner, Christchurch International Airport, Go Bus Christchurch, Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway, Leopard Coachlines, Christchurch Northern Motorway, Red Bus, Lyttelton road tunnel, Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch Southern Motorway, Christchurch Railway Cycleway. Excerpt: The Christchurch tramway system was an extensive network in Christchurch, New Zealand, with steam and horse trams from 1882. Electric trams ran from 1905 to 1954, when the last line to Papanui was replaced by buses. The track was standard gauge, in). There is now a 2.5-kilometre (1.6 mi) central city loop heritage tram system, opened in February 1995 and running all year round, and a tram museum at the Ferrymead Heritage Park with operating trams. A smaller extension of the city loop is underway as of the late 2000s, and a new strategy report by Jan Gehl commissioned for Council and published in early 2010 suggested an extension of the tram system (and integration of the trams into the general public transport system) as one of a package of measures aimed at reducing car-dominance in the city. The difficulty experienced by Christchurch's early residents in conveying them and their export goods to Lyttelton brought about the first proposal for a tramway at a meeting held on 26 September 1855. The merits of both wooden and iron-based tramways were discussed and a resolution was passed in support of the construction of either a tramway or a railway. The issue arose again at a Provincial Council meeting on 16 October 1855 at which it was proposed that a line be built to Sumner and goods could then be transported to Lyttelton by boat. A couple of leading and influential figures spoke out against the proposal and it was voted down. It was not until 1858 that th...