Chainlinks - join us at CAN Do
Chainlinks, February 2025
Supercharge your bike advocacy at CAN Do
Want more kids on bikes? Let’s make it happen.
Join us at CAN Do, CAN's get-together. This year we're in Ōtautahi Christchurch, on 22-23 March 2025. The weekend includes workshops, training, rides, plenty of food and drink, and a chance to catch up with bike advocates from around New Zealand.
You will improve your advocacy skills, with training on effective messaging, networking, and campaigning.
The critical component is networking and making connections with other like minded people from across the motu. This is an excellent opportunity to share stories, learn and become an effective advocate for better streets, better cities, and better lives. We're developing the programme of speakers and events, including
Phoebe Balle, on Bike Valet Parking: how consistent, secure bike parking at events is supporting mode-shift in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Simon Kingham, former Chief Science Adviser to the Ministry of Transport
CAN Chair Alex Dyer on our strategy.
Register today.
Call to action: have your say on safe speed limits
After years of progress on safer speeds, recent Government decisions to raise speeds are putting our lives at risk. Not acceptable. Please have your say.
Take action: make a submission via each region’s consultation page:
You could say:
An effective way to reduce risk and harm is to set speed limits that are safe and appropriate for the location.
100 kmh is inappropriate for this location. 80 kmh reduces both the chance of a crash, and the consequences.
I note that heavy vehicles are limited to 90 kmh, so 100 kmh doesn't make sense.
Regardless of this consultation exercise, I think safety measures such as speed limits should be based expert advice, not reckons from non-experts.
See CAN's submission guide for more.
The real cost of backpedalling
We love this story from Gill Higgins at TVNZ, featuring CAN Chair Alex Dyer, transport expert Simon Kingham, physician Dr David Tripp, and Mangere community advocate Sokko Seeto.
An in-depth looks at whether NZ's four-wheel focus risks making us sicker, poorer and less safe by reporter Gill Higgins . Includes shocking ill-informed views from National Transport minister Simeon Brown point blank dislike for people safety on our public road networks, including children biking to schools
Do you Love to Ride?
The Aotearoa Bike Challenge is here. Ride with your friends and colleagues this February for your chance to win great prizes.
Ride any where, any time and encourage others to earn points. The more points you earn, the further you climb the leaderboards and the better your chance to win prizes.
Set a target for the month, join a team, log your rides, and love your rides.
Stop unsafe speed limits
If you'd like to support Movement.org.nz's legal action to stop the Government's new speed rule from reversing recently-implemented safer speed limits, you can do so here: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/movement
Movement supports safe and sustainable transport. This includes the safe speed limits which are now being reversed by the current Government's "Setting of Speed Limits 2024" rule.
If we don't act to stop the Government's reversal of safer speed limits implemented over the last 5 years on state highways, rural roads and urban streets (including schools), then more New Zealanders will die on our roads.
Movement has lodged a judicial review in the High Court on 16 January 2025 to stop Government's new Speed rule from reversing the safer speed limits implemented since 2020.