A summary of our key points (But read the full pdf version below - it's real good!):

Key points of our submission:
● Bring the installation of cycle racks on buses forward to the next three years.
● Improve and expand cycle storage facilities at train stations
● Support the removal of peak hour bicycle restrictions where train services show to have
capacity.
● We support improving regional parks, especially easy and medium grade tracks for
walking and cycling. These tracks can not only support recreational cyclists but if
designed well can be utilised by commuters (eg, Hutt River trail).

A summary of our key points
● We support all the walking and cycling projects listed as first and second priority
activities.
(relates to q1 of the submission form)
● The programme includes high-cost, large, new projects (third priority) that focus
on private vehicle transport and have low benefit cost ratios (eg Basin Reserve
Improvements and Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway). We do not support these
projects.
(relates to q1 of the submission form)
● Bring forward the Ngauranga to Petone cycleway project to be completed within three

Get your submissions in on the three documents out for consultation at the moment. We've got an overview with main points for each detailed below. Writing your own submission and turning up to present it in person could well be the most important twenty minutes of advocacy you do all year!

Regional Land Transport Programme:

Submit online at: http://www.gw.govt.nz/regional-land-transport-programme/

Attached is CAW's submission on the proposal to rebuild the Rimutaka Railway.

This submission updates our submission to the GWRC Social and Cultural Wellbeing
Committee 23 November 2011.

Letter to NZTA re M2PP Cycling Provisions between Poplar Avenue and Paekakariki - 24 November 2011

These comments relate to the cycling proposals.  I am a member of both Kapiti Cycling Inc and the Kapiti Over 50s Bike Club.  I provided a submission last June on this subject following an Expo.

At that time I made the following point:

"QEII Park Cycle Route.

I prefer the proposed alignment using the existing Inland Route through QEII Park.  Because this existing route is fairly challenging by grade and

Submission to GWRC  Social and Cultural Wellbeing Committee 23 November 2011 on behalf of Cycle Aware Wellington Inc, in response to Rimutaka Incline Heritage Trust's application to reinstate a railway line on the Rimutaka Rail Trail.

We conclude that reinstatement of the railway would change the experience of cycling the route completely, and make it impractical for beginners and cycletourists, if not all cyclists.

Following is our submission on the draft Hutt Corridor Plan. 

CAW submission on draft Hutt Corridor Plan June 2011

Cycle Aware Wellington Inc (CAW) advocates for everyday cycling in the Wellington region, and has a mailing list of over 500 members.

The key points of the submission are:

27 May 2011

Chief Executive

Ministry of Transport

PO Box 3175

WELLINGTON 6140

Dear Sir

Proposed direction for the Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2012/13 to 2021/22