Prominent Auckland architects, Copeland Associates, are about to start work on design concepts for the Auckland Harbour Bridge Pathway. We'd like your input, please take the short survey here:
http://survey.usuite.com/survey/7c130cf3178940d2a8421693b340d7f5.sur
Other news:
We're forming a Pathway Steering Group to meet monthly and oversee the delivery of the project.
We continue to meet fortnightly with NZTA regarding the Pathway.
We're working to a deadline of the Rugby World Cup - next year!
All the best,
Andy Smith
andysmith@...
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The Nelson Tasman Active Transport Forum is a multi-party forum for those within the region who have an interest in the development and promotion of active transport.
The forum was set up to encourage information sharing and cross-sector action in Nelson/Tasman between agencies with an interest in Active Transport, including representatives from such sectors as education, environment, health and disability, recreation, sport, tourism, transport and local and national government.
The Nelson Tasman forum meets...
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CAN has produced a guide for instructors. You can download it from the bottom of this page.
It includes lesson plans, road layout diagrams, and how to set up a training course.
Course Summary
On successful completion of this course the trainees will have completed the NZ Cycle Skills Training Guidelines Grade One and Two outcomes.
Following is a summary of the exercises contained in the course.
Session 1: Bike, helmet, clothing check. Brakes, starting and stopping, shoulder check, gears, slalom, emergency stop and signalling.
Session 2...
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With fuel costs soaring and environmental conservation in vogue, the bicycle is making a comeback in many cities, becoming a major part of urban transportation plans.
Men's website AskMen.com has come up with a list of the world's top most bicycle-friendly cities. Reuters has not endorsed this list:
1. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam's comes top when it comes to bicycle-friendly cities and nearly 40 percent of all commutes in Amsterdam are done by bicycle.Public bikes are available to rent and plans to construct a massive bike parking structure...
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If you are going to have a lawn, TreeHugger Mike recommends a reel (or push) mower. (But then, he is an addict) If you are going to have a really big lawn, talk to Ted Wojcik. He built this mower, seen at the North American Handmade Show. He normally builds more conventional bikes at Ted Wojcik Custom Bicycles in New Hampshire.
According to his website,
After more than 25 years of designing and manufacturing bicycle frames, Ted is revered as one of the masters of the trade. His bicycles have won medals at USCF championships, NORBA events, Tour Du Pont, the Pan-Am Games,...
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Photos from Art Deco weekend in Napier Feb 2010. View more Bike Chic at Flickr here
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For details and event programme, please see event lisiting on this page. Jess at Sport BoP is looking for a few expereinced cyclists to help teach basic bike handling and some on road safety (in off road, mock situations) at hte Childrens day in the Redwoods on sunday 7 March. Please consider coming along to help and also please pass on to anyone you think may be interested in volunteering.
cheers
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Although the city already had a private bike-sharing program, the government of the Mexican capital has recently launched the official Ecobici. The initial phase includes 85 stations across the city and over 1,000 bikes. It was about time the city launched this program, which was announced a while ago but took much public work to improve bike infrastructure.
Since last February 17, the system is up and running. Its goal is to reduce the number of vehicles that go through the city everyday (over 5 million), while recovering public space, reducing pollution, and improving life...
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Please support the Council's proposal to improve cyclist safety on Thorndon Quay. Make a submission - it only takes a couple of minutes.
BackgroundOver the past 10 years, the average number of commuter cyclists on Thorndon Quay has increased from 75 to 300 per hour during peak hours. The average reported crashes between cycles and vehicles have also increased from one to six per year, making Thorndon Quay one of the most dangerous roads in Wellington for cyclists.
Most cycle / vehicle crashes occur in the southbound direction between 7.00am to 9.00am, usually resulting from...
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NEW VENUE - Mon Ami cafe, 8 Bond Street
6 - 7.30pm
Agenda
Go By Bike Day
Love to Roll
Greater Wellington Bikeability workshops
Thorndon Quay Wellington City Council is proposing parking changes on Thorndon Quay to improve safety for cyclists.
Bikes on Trains
Basin Reserve
CAW website
update from CAN
workshop for bus drivers
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A Hastings man has given 62 new bicycles to a local school to get children back on bikes.
Paul McArdle has also given St Mary's Primary School 225 helmets, four bike tracks, a bike shed and an elite cyclist to coach the youngsters.
It is a package worth about $75,000, mostly from his own pocket.
Today (19 Feb 2010) at St Mary's, Prime Minister John Key will introduce Mr McArdle's Bikes in the School initiative, which aims to give every primary school pupil access to a bicycle and track.
St Mary's principal Liz Crowley said the scheme had been...
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Includes recommendations by Jan Gehl, which were:
Create a cycle policy, setting out goals to be achievedCreate a strategy for a gradual development of cycle facilitiesCreate a coherent cycle network of good, connected routesCreate safe, raised cycle lanes, separated from traffic by kerbsRun campaigns to encourage cycling and to create greater awareness about cyclists in traffic – critical massProvide clear markings at intersectionsProvide cycle signals at intersectionsEstablish good and convenient bicycle parking facilitiesOffer up-hill cycle transport by public transportLink city...22
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The New Zealand Transport Agency is to be asked to investigate making high-visibility vests and brightly coloured helmets compulsory for cyclists as a result of the death of a Dunedin man who was struck by a vehicle on State Highway 1 near Allanton last year.
Otago-Southland region coroner David Crerar will also recommend the agency investigate making the use of headlights compulsory at all times for vehicles on the open road, to make them as visible as possible to other road users.
Mr Crerar said he would make the recommendations in his final...
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David Darlington's stirring narrative shows the devastating price paid by cyclists when the legal system and society fail to hold drivers accountable for deadly recklessness on our roads.
This article hits home on the issues for advocates in preventing/responding to tragic collisions by motorists with cyclists...
Link to article here on Google books
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Hamilton police are trying to identify a woman found dead in a creek with a bicycle yesterday morning.
Senior Sergeant Karl Thornton, of Hamilton, said a member of the public found the woman's body in knee deep water in Waitawhiriwhiri Stream, in Edgecumbe Park, Hamilton, at 11.35am yesterday.
"It appears she was riding a bike at a fair speed down the steep path, skid marks at the scene suggest she's failed to negotiate a corner and struck a tree before coming to a rest in the stream. Her death is not being treated as suspicious and has been referred to the Coroner while we...
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reposting of an article from The(bike)ThinkTank:
[TheThinkTank] bike art and other ideas
From: thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org on behalf of Mark Rehder (mark@re-cycles.ca)
Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 8:17:22 p.m.
To: The Think Tank (thethinktank@bikecollectives.org)
The thread on housing storage reminded me of a shop I visited in
Montreal called SOS Velo. Not so much in terms of parts storage but
in creative ways of using bike parts.
When re-Cycles was entering its partnership with Cycle Salvation the ...
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Veer screening tonight at 7:30 at the Basement!! Seats could well sell out so come early
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Researchers say New Zealand could save $200 million per year in health costs if more people left the car at home and cycled instead.
The Centre for Sustainable Cities says it would take only 5% of car trips being replaced by bike rides to make the savings.
Manager Jan Logie says the extra exercise would also save the lives of more than a hundred people each year.
She says a 5% change is not radical, as it is just getting back to the number of cyclists in the 1980s.
Cycling...
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Bike On NZ is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to get everyone in New Zealand to experience the joy of biking.
How does Bike On plan to achieve their aim?
By privately funding a number of different projects (eg Bikes in the School and Teenage
Girls on Bikes) and then analysing and assessing their success rate. Funding (private and public) will then be secured via a non-profit charitable Trust to enable the most successful projects to offered across New Zealand.
Bike On believe that the return on these high performing projects will be substantial due to...
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A plague of bicycle-riding is affecting thousands of young Wellingtonians who would otherwise be healthy, happy individuals. It can strike anyone at any time. I’ve known many people who have fallen victim to it. One minute they’re hale and hearty bon vivants raging at AC/DC concerts or having a rollicking time as Munich Beer Hall Fräuleins at the Rugby Sevens, and then the next time you see them they’re just bits of skin-and-bone pushing their bodies to the limit on ultra-expensive racing bikes.
They don’t look healthy. I know they eat lots of high-energy food and no doubt...