Ministry of Transport

Full submission attached as pdf below.

Thank you for your email of 4 October 2012 inviting our organisation to present our views for the next stage of the Safer Journeys road safety strategy. We appreciate the opportunity to put forward our thoughts and welcome any further engagement in the development and implementation of the resulting Action Plan and initiatives.

This submission has been prepared by members of the Cycling Advocates' Network with expertise in road safety.

Attached is a letter from Barry Kidd advising you of the changes being made to the Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport Funding 2009/10 - 2018/19.

These changes are important to understand because they will affect funding applications to the NZ Transport Agency in the future.

This letter is being sent electronically and in the mail to several key stakeholders in the land transport sector.

Safer Journeys is a strategy to guide improvements in road safety over the period 2010–2020. The long term goal for road safety in New Zealand is set out in its vision:

"A safe road system increasingly free of death and serious injury"

Download it at http://www.transport.govt.nz/saferjourneys/Pages/default.aspx