CAN policies
Presented by: Graeme Lindup (CAN)
- We need policies for when asked our position on specific issues.
- Graeme outlined the policy development process. (Does CAN Forum still operate? only intermittently.)
- Interactive session: priority levels of policies under development were revised.
Cycle Action Waikato
Presented by: Robbie Price (Cycle Action Waikato) and Julie Roe (CAN)
"2011-an analogy along Wairere Drive"
Hamilton
- Trying to grow. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on development, four-laning, ring road, inner city bypass, expressway
- One of the National Cycleway routes to go through the middle of Hamilton
- City has $400 million debt
- Traffic issues
- NZTA is no longer co-funding active transport
- Building for peak traffic
Cycle Action Waikato
- 24 paid members, 6 active, 3 executive, 175 Friends
- Focus mostly on plans and consultation. Good relationships with Hamilton City Council Sustainable Transport group, Living Streets, Disability Access. Meet with NZTA staff. Manage fleet bikes.
Outcomes
- Crisis control measures. Debt crisis- 100% cut in capital works in 10 year plan.
- Some new infrastructure: Wairere Drive extension, Te Awa river ride, river trails, National Cycleway projects.
- Continuing issues- Wairere Drive great to ride on but misses shopping centre, The Base, major Wintec campus- doesn't go anywhere. River Pathway- often closed, underwater for a month each year.
- Where do we want to be? Moving focus from infrastructure more towards the social side. Frocks on Bikes: one event in 2011, organised by University. Bums on Bikes: getting people out of commuting by car.
- Cycle training: signed three year contract with Hamilton City. One fulltime team member, $150,000/year funding. Focus on year 6 (10 year olds).
- Some 40 km/h zones going in.
- Recent research carried out by Beca - surveyed NZ shops and shoppers. How much spent- motorists spent only slightly more per visit, but others visited more. If the cost of parking is included, cycle/walking win hands down.