Highlights this issue:
Reports from New Plymouth: NZ Cycling Conference Cycle Friendly Awards CAN Do new CAN committee restructuring of CAN Reviews of books for gift ideas Post CAN Do ride - Forgotten Highway and much more!News
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Bonnie Tu, chief financial officer of Giant, believes that more women will buy bicycles designed by women.
"Did you have a chance to see them?” Bonnie Tu asks as she sweeps into the room
and gestures towards a display of seven bikes of various shapes and sizes.
“All designed by women for women: that’s what is going to change the way the
world thinks about bicycles.”
By and large, the world thinks of bikes as an exercise in machismo on wheels, from muddy mountain bikers to lycra-clad road cyclists or commuters taking their chances with the lorries and...
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Cycling
is the ultimate rebuke to big government, to the unnecessary rules, the
powerlessness that besets those using other forms of transport, says
Andrew Gilligan.
Cyclists are a very vulnerable presence on our roads
Photo: Reuters
It's fair to say that Ken Livingstone and I have had a "challenging" relationship. As the chief journalistic tormentor of the former mayor of London during last year's election campaign, I always thought that our agreeing with each other was about as likely as Imelda Marcos sending her shoes to the mender.
But this week, such...
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I'll always remember the police that day at Wreck Beach, Vancouver's buzzing and permanent party strip for nudists.
The
police aren't naked; strapped up in their full security uniforms, long
sleeves, visible handguns, hand-cuffs and tough shoes. But everyone
else is naked. The populous, numbering in the hundreds, go along for a
grand old naked pig out on sun, recreational drugs and alcohol—the sun,
of course, being the only thing legal about any of it.
But word
spreads fast in a super-friendly place and despite the excessive
illegal consumption, the contraband...
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An asserted 'cycletopia'
http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2009/12/truth-about-copenhagen.html
Vs a real cycletopia....
http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2009/12/superhighway-out-of-assen.html
read on.....
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Alan up in Mangawhai , Northland
http://urbanbicycles.googlepages.com
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Picnic for the Planet
Elinor Chisholm writes:
Kia ora Cycle Aware Wellington
I am helping to organise the Green Party Picnic
for the Planet early next year. Would CAW
be interested in having a stall
there?
"Picnic for the Planet is the first Green Party event of each year. It is a day of festivities centred around the Co-Leaders' State of the Planet speech. The speech is an inspiring and scene-setting account of the Green Party plan for the year. The Picnics have become a landmark in the annual political calendar, with TV news coverage of the...
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Please find attached a draft of the unit standards from the Qualification Development Panel meetings held in October and November. It is now time for us to share the draft unit standards with relevant others and the member organisations that we represent.
Please respond with any comments, by Wednesday 16 December, Dear All;
Please find attached a draft of the unit standards from the Qualification Development Panel meetings held in October and November. It is now time for us to share the draft unit standards with relevant others and the...
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Another short video by Australian documentary-maker Mike Rubbo with Mikael from Copenhagenize.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MikeRubbo#p/u/0/tozCu1BBaWE
Looking down the list on the right side of the page you'll see some other interesting short videos in which Mike contrasts 'cycling' in western Europe with that in countries like ours.
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Alan Preston up in Mangawhai, Northland. NZ
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Claire and I were briefed by Tony Brennand from NZTA today on Basin Reserve plans. Here's our notes.
In February 2010 NZTA will start 6 weeks of formal consultation on options for the Basin Reserve: flyover, etc.
Do nothing is unlikely to be an option.
A preferred option is expected to be announced in May.
Construction is pencilled in for 2012-15.
This is part of a Road of National Significance (Levin to Airport).
Note new GPS, transport priorities etc
Project still depends on getting funding from NLTP.
NZTA is informally...
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Exciting news today with the Auckland City Council's support for a proposed NZ Cycle Trail project for Waiheke.
Press Statement "Waiheke plan for PM's Cycle Trail " A major boost for cycling on Waiheke is underway with the launch today by Fullers and Cycle Action Waiheke of a 'Great Cycle Ride' trail to be submitted for inclusion in PM John Key's NZ Cycle Trail.
The project was presented to Auckland City's Transport Committee by Fullers' CEO, Doug Hudson, Waiheke resident Michelle Boag and Cycle Action...
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CAN is seeking a Media & Marketing Co-ordinator.
Please contact CAN Chair Bevan Woodward or Project Manager Patrick Morgan.
The Media & Marketing Co-ordinator plays a key role in helping to communicate CAN's key messages to outside audiences such as the general public, the wider cycling community and decision makers. The role is also important in shaping and projecting CAN's image.
The Media & Marketing Co-ordinator is appointed by the Committee. It is helpful, but not essential, for the postholder to also be on the Committee, though knowledge of CAN's...
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Rethinking Streets in Paris by Elizabeth Press on January 14, 2009 | 12,543 Plays
Back in July I made a video about Paris' public bicycle system, Velib. Its success must in part be credited to the provisions made for safe cycling and the understood "street code," where users are responsible for others whose vehicles are lighter than their own.
This video explores traffic calming amenities Paris has installed. For example, in several areas of Paris curbs have been removed and bikes, pedestrians, buses and taxis coexist at low speeds. On wider roads bikes share the BRT...
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WorldChanging Team, 30 Nov 09
by Sarah Goodyear
Lots of catching up to do after the holiday weekend. Here's a sampling of what's been coming in over the network:
Austin on Two Wheels threw a link up on Twitter to a very intriguing article published last week in the influential medical journal The Lancet (registration required). According to the Montréal Gazette, the researchers concluded that infrastructure spending should be diverted from road building to pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure for a variety of public health reasons:
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Honda to launch bicycle simulator By James Costley-White
Honda have developed this bicycle simulator to teach people how to deal with traffic (Honda)
Honda have developed a high-tech bicycle simulator to teach people how to stay safe in traffic.
The device, which looks like something Heath Robinson might have dreamt up rather than a gleaming product of the motor industry, will go on sale in Japan in Feburary.
According to Honda, it will help people "improve their ability to predict risks and increase safety awareness" by letting...
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Beauty and the Bike
A few months back, we showed you the Beauty and the Bike trailer. Now the 55-minute documentary is finished. The film follows two groups of young women from Darlington and Bremen as they discover . An 8-minute version of Beauty and the Bike is below and you can read all about the project on the Beauty and the Bike website.
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Alastair's slideshow
Obcycle – Sat 5 Dec 11-3, Julian, Christina, wants helpers
Thorndon
Quay proposal - Robert, Claire and Patrick
WCC 3 Dec Thu 9.15am
retailer survey
parking spaces
CAW's top priority street
bus driver workshop – Illona...
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Can you lend an hour or two to help promote cycling in Wellington? CAW (Cycle Aware Wellington) is putting on an Obcycle Course this Saturday 5 December from 11am - 3pm at Odlin's Plaza by St John's bar on the waterfront. We need volunteers to be marshalls/referees at the different stations on the course to time and judge the competitors. It will be a small, low-key, fun event. Also folks to help set up for an hour and/or pack down would be great. Please contact Julian julianboorman-at-yahoo.com 021 0688 951 if you can help.
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The WCC strategy and policy committee (effectively the whole council) will be debating Thorndon Quay – Proposed Cycle Improvements at the meeting 3 December. The report presents options and recommends consultation be carried out on the preferred option of a morning peak clearway using the southbound lanes of Thorndon Quay.
We should get a slot in the public particpation at the start of the meeting to support the recommendation.
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This summer plan a trip using the Journey Planner to one of our top destinations, tell us what makes that trip special, and win!
Prizes include vouchers, free entry to the participating destinations and more. How do you enter?
Go to www.journeyplanner.org.nz, design a trip and send it to us using the feedback form. In your entry, write a couple of sentences about the highlights of your trip.
Make sure you include your name, postal address or email contact details so we can let you know if you have won.
The competition starts on Wednesday 25 November...