It’s morning. You leave your high rise apartment for the cafe below, deciding to catch the 8.30am train or bus rather than the 8:25am to work – you only need 21 minutes to get from Hornby to the city centre.
It’s 2051, and under the cover of trees you wait to become one of up to 2500 people who use Christchurch’s mass rapid transit every hour during peak times.
At this point, 40% of all trips to the central city from Greater Christchurch are made by public transport. The mass rapid transit is used 5.7 million times a year, reducing carbon emissions by around 467,500 tonnes annually compared to 2021.
This is the vision of how Greater Christchurch will accommodate a population which is projected to double to one million in the next 60 years, with the use of a Greater Christchurch spatial plan and mass rapid transit.
