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Do you want safer and more attractive cycling in New Zealand? Vote cycling.

Whether you are a family with kids, a mountain biker, roadie, commuter or simply love to ride, now is the time to take action.

There are Council elections in October. We need help to make cycling an election issue, so candidates realise that there are a lot of cyclists out there, most of whom vote.

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Lessons from Planning the Cycling City summer school in the Netherlands
By Patrick Morgan, CAN Project Manager

This month I attended Planning the Cycling City summer school in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam. Lucky me. Along with 30 students from 20 countries, we examined cycling through social sciences lenses. We applied lessons from planning, economics, modelling, history, marketing, epistemology, and anthropology. We rode 10,000 km over the three weeks.

What did I learn?

Dutch city streets are quiet places. You can hear...

The case for safe and appropriate speeds

AA bosses argued that cutting limits did not necessarily increase road safety, while transport leaders said such a move risked "slowing New Zealand down".

But Patrick Morgan, from the advocacy group Cycling Action Network, said road safety should not be framed as a "productivity or compliance issue".

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MEDIA STATEMENT from Bike Auckland: 10am Wednesday 22 May 2019

Certainty at last for Aucklanders yearning to bike across the bridge?

Bike Auckland welcomes the New Zealand Transport Agency’s preferred design for an Auckland
Harbour Bridge Shared Path as an important breakthrough.

“Ever since the bridge was built, people have wanted to walk and bike across it,” says Barb
Cuthbert, Chair of the advocacy organisation Bike Auckland. “Locals and visitors alike constantly tell
us they’re aghast that in 2019, in our biggest city,...

Let's Get Wellington Biking - pop up bike party!
People on bikes deserve protection. We love the protected bike lanes Wellington City Council has built, but progress is far too slow. Will Let's Get Wellington Moving deliver?
Join us as we host a pop up bike party and demand the protection we need. Meet at the north end of the Basin Reserve by Kent and Cambridge Terraces. 

Let's show the Council we need them to move much faster on building safe and healthy streets. We'll all be better off.

7:30 – 8:30am, Friday 17 May 2019

People on bikes deserve protection. We love the protected bike lanes Wellington City Council has built, but progress is far too slow. So we're taking action into our own hands. If the city won’t protect us, we will protect our own.
Join us as we build our own people protected bike lane on Featherston St, Wellington. Meet on the corner of Featherston and Ballance Sts. Let's show the Council we need them to move much faster on building safe and healthy streets. We'll all be better off.

7:45 – 8:30am, Wednesday 10 April 2019...

The arrival of e-scooters in significant numbers in NZ creates issues for how we get around. What are the issues?
by Patrick Morgan

Although there are some risks, overall there are net benefits.
- more demand for bike lanes and traffic calming
- helps transition to low-carbon, less car-dependent transport
- but risks need to be managed
- footpaths are primarily for people on foot.

Policy
E-scooters are here already. It's a bad look to seek to restrict something that's already proving...

CAN is organising our biggest bike expo in Christchurch, on the 13 and 14 October, at the Air Force Museum of NZ, Wigram.

The NZ Bike Expo will bring together everything to do with the bicycle, in a vibrant and exciting consumer show. Visitors will have opportunities to trial bikes, meet top sports people, learn about new adventures on the Events Programme, and feature prizes and giveaways as well as showcasing a wonderful range of top bike and bike-related brands and retailers.

As a cycling advocacy group we’re very keen to get more people on their bikes, enjoying...

Bike to the Future awards review

To: CAN Board
From: Patrick Morgan
25 September 2018

With the 2018 awards behind us, it's timely to consider timing and branding of the Bike to the Future Awards.

Introduction

The Bike to the Future Awards...