Rangiora

And I just think like our biggest driver is just, because people all the time, like even with driving, like I currently have a child that goes to school by Pioneer Stadium.

I have a child at Kohanga in Hornby and I have a child at school in Tuahiwi, which is like between Kaipoi and Rangiora.

And Petrol is not true.

Wow.

but i also did grow up on an ostrich farm so that's fun sometimes i like to put that out there because that's interesting so did your

parents move to christchurch because you moved to christchurch

no i was born in christchurch Oh, were you? I actually believe I was born in Rangiora, I think.

Oh, yeah, cool.

Yes, good stuff.

Rangiora would be an ice cold cup of tea that definitely wasn't supposed to be ice cold.

Yeah, and a heavy milk pour on that.

Yeah.

For those of you that know us, before even we moved back to Christchurch and before we even built our house in Lincoln, We had already planned which school we wanted our daughters to go to.

So we looked at Christchurch, we looked at New Life Church, Rangiora, we looked at Emmanuel Baptist, we looked at Adenfield, and we looked at Middleton Grange, and we decided that we were going to buy a section within the zone of the school that we wanted to.

So we had already chosen Adenfield, And we've been there for five years.

Every year we apply for Aidenfield, every year we are on the wait list.

Now, when this was announced by the transport minister, he said that it would unlock land for housing in the Waimak district, because of course it's easier to get to.

So places like Rangiora, Kaiapoi, Woodend, Pegasus, Ravenswood, they're all kind of closer to Christchurch from a commute standpoint.

So if we, uh, apply the lens of does this open up more land, yeah, I think it does.

And again, keep that test in your head, because we're gonna keep talking about it.

Yesterday, we heard from rail advocate Patrick Rooney, who told us that Christchurch is the biggest city in Australasia without a rail network.

Now, the Christchurch Regional Council is undertaking a study to see whether a city rail network that would eventually extend to Rolleston in the south and Rangiora in the north is feasible.

Locals RNZ spoke to in Christchurch s- sound keen.

Yeah, they're pretty lucky up there.

Um, and we have those existing rail corridors, and we used to have rail back in, you know, many, many years ago, uh, for people, especially in the interregional, uh, space.

Yeah, it's, it's, it is a great opportunity, but we've got to really focus on what our public transport offering is in Christchurch.

We are quite a car-centric city, and we've built a city that's been really focused towards cars, and we've constantly been trying to in- increase the investment in our existing public transport network, uh, which is a program of work that we've been dedicated over the next 10 years for improving the public transport, leading to the mass rapid transit, uh, proposal that was put out a few years ago, which was looking at moving people from the, the Belfast to Hornby as a stage one, and then to the Rolleston and, uh, Rangiora areas in a stage two.

That's a huge opportunity, but we must get our existing public transport network up to running, uh, so that it feeds into that.

Christchurch is the largest city in Australasia without a rail service.

Um, so that's the mo-- one of the, the low-hanging fruit, and as you say, uh, rail connects Rolleston, it connects Rangiora, it connects Ashburton, Timaru.

So there's a real possibility there for, um, for, for rail to make sense in Canterbury.

Um, and, uh, uh, and, uh, and further south as well.