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Southern councils push TA onward
Te Araroa’s southern-most section, the 32-km walk from Invercargill to Bluff, has received a major boost with Environment Southland and Invercargill City Council allocating a further $50,000 each towards the project in the 2010/2011 financial year.
This repeats the $100,000 investment these councils made the previous year to extend the existing Estuary Walkway south to Lake Street.
The new funds will extend the track where the route is settled and will finance what Invercargill Parks Manager Robin Pagan calls a "big picture" study of the options where the route is not settled. He believes construction in the present financial year will take the track as far as Duck Creek
The final goal is track completion right through to Ocean Beach, where the existing Foveaux Walkway takes Te Araroa to its southern terminus at Sterling Point. The project will, however, proceed in stages with each stage making an important reduction in the current road bypass that exists on the busy Bluff Highway.
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Map notes:
A-B ...Existing Estuary Walkway between Stead St wharf and Lake Street.
B-C ...Next stage for track development to Duck Creek
D-E ...Existing Foveaux Walkway between Ocean Beach and Sterling Point, Bluff
Trail bridge across a shallow inlet in the New River Estuary.
