Fight for Sustainable Transport in Nelson

We are fighting to implement enticing options to car commuting in Nelson, rather than building a third arterial. This new road would cleave the poorer Nelson South and Victory communities, in return for a minor improvement in existing roads past wealthy peoples apartments.

The proposed route goes within metres of a low decile primary school, alongside an intermediate school and 3 childcare centres, through the most air polluted valley in Nelson. On the existing route the air pollution is not trapped in a valley but free to go out to sea.

This potential new road was exhaustively investigated with the 2010-11 Arterial Study which found there was no case for building the road in the foreseeable future. Nelson traffic numbers have been flat for 10 years since well before the global financial crisis, despite record regional population growth. Peak hour delays although frustrating for those who choose to car commute are 4 minutes peak hour delay, 7.5 minutes peak 15 minutes.

The effort to bulldoze this new road is well funded, those of us wanting more sane transport solutions are struggling to fund the printing of flyers, T shirts, badges and bike stickers. Please give a little - every dollar helps!

What we need is the following:

Flyers - A5 colour 1 side, b&w other (10,000) $1407

Printed T shirts (100) $1545

Badges (600) $900

Bumper Stickers $416

Posters A2 colour laminated (50) $634

Transport (petrol) for door knockers and flyer letterbox dropper distribution $98

Total $5,000