Watch here for Tamati's Tiki Tour - One Less Car on the Road in Nelson on Thursday 26th March.
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News
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Jimmy is a journalism student thinking of doing a story on cycling and walking around the Miramar peninsula. I've given him some leads already, but if you would like to give him some ideas, his contact details are in the email.
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Alastair
From: James Ellingham [jamesellingham@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 10:43 a.m.
To: Alastair Smith
Subject: Cycling around Miramar
Hi Alistair,
I'm a student journalist from Massey University, and I'm...
26
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Mar
New Group Starter Booklet - A 21 page guide outlining the steps you need to take to start a new group in your area
Draft Consititution - A basic constitution to provide the buiding blocks for your new constitution.
Funding Information - A useful guide to potential avenues of funding
Getting Started Visual - A flow chart showing the steps
25
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Mar
Bicycle Nelson Bays minutes 25-3-2009
Present: Anne, Helen, Fiona, Richard, Lyneke
Agenda items
Meetings and acrtive membership
-need to have regular meetings at a regular venue
-meeting at the pub went well
Tasman Regional Land Transport Strategy
Heart of Nelson follow up
Port Nelson Infill
BAG issues
-need to have regular meetings at a regular venue to get more people to make it to meetings. Meeting at the pub went well but not conducive to getting a lot of work done. Fiona to send Anne...25
Mar
Mar
How do we get local people involved?
Who do we target?
Who are BNB representing when doing submissions?
Is it the usual suspects or are there more cyclists out there?
Anne (not really Fiona)
24
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Mar
Just a reminder about the meeting on cycling in the botanic Gardens, tonight Tuesday 24 Mar 5.30pm
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Mar
"The Regional Walking and Cycling Strategy covers safety, access and mobility, infrastructure and strategic planning for active modes of transport in the Bay of Plenty. It also includes an indicative Regional Cycling Network, which identifies a series of cycle routes across the Bay of Plenty.
Environment Bay of Plenty has worked with many organisations on this regional strategy. These include the New Zealand Transport Agency, city and district councils, Sport Bay of Plenty and Toi Te Ora Public Health.
The Regional Walking and Cycling Strategy was adopted...
23
Mar
Mar
Cycling is popular, safe, economical, responsible and healthy. It's also really simple! here's a guide to making your cycling all of these and more!
You can download this guide too - click on the download icon at the bottom of the text.
CAN Guide to Every Day Cycling
Ride with pride
You’re making a difference!
Enjoy your riding
Smile, feel great, radiate happiness!
Support other cyclists
Help make cycling better for...
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Mar
This page provides New Zealand's road code to help motorists and cyclists share the road in safety.
1. For Motorists - Sharing the road with cyclists
Cyclists can be quite vulnerable on the road as they are less visible and less well protected than other road users.
For these reasons, be alert for cyclists on the road and drive carefully when near them.
Safe driving around cyclists Hazards like parked cars, potholes, glass, litter and opening car doors may cause cyclists to veer off-line and move into your path. Because of this, give cyclists plenty of room...23
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CAN Cycling in New Zealand - Facts and Figures
Cycling is popular, safe, economical, responsible and healthy. These key facts and figures show why this is true in New Zealand. You can download the page below, giving the more detailed facts and figures.
o There are many cyclists. There are 1.3 million cyclists in New Zealand today (30% of the population), and of these, 750,000 are adults of voting age (26% of adults).
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Film review: Veer - the movie
Directed by Greg Fredette
98 minutes, hdv, colour
Want to borrow this movie from CAN?
When Greg Fredette started making Veer, a new feature-length documentary about bike culture in Portland, Oregon, he had less faith in his community. But as he followed the tributaries of the cycling scene, he found an increasing sense of hope.
“I feel like I’m far less cynical than I used to be,” he says, speaking from Portland a week before Veer premiered in February. “I noticed a change in...
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URGENT - please contribute to a stocktake of of all regionally significant recreational / tourism cycle routes (off and on road) throughout the country. Submit your routes before 23 March 09 (Monday).
To support the background work / feasibility study being undertaken by the Ministry of Tourism for the National Cycleway, the working party of key stakeholders urgently need to undertake a stocktake of all regionally significant recreational / tourism cycle routes (off and on road) throughout the country.
We need input from people who have a good knowledge of cycle routes within...
18
Mar
Mar
Cycle Aware Wellington news release ** draft **
18 March 2009
Cyclists welcome Wellington's first cycling stop boxes
Adelaide Rd stop boxes
Green rectangles painted on the road have appeared near traffic lights in Newtown. But these aren't street art, they are Wellington's first advanced stop boxes, designed to help cyclists get a smooth start at traffic lights.
...13
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Submissions are due 18 March on the Wellington Waterfront project - is someone preparing a CAW submission?
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Quarterly Report for CAN Networking project, January - March 2009
To: Gerry Dance, New Zealand Transport Agency
From: CAN
31 March 2009
Actions
Outcomes
1a) Develop governance and organisational structure of CAN to ensure it can support its activities
CAN Exec and Staff planning meeting held, Palmerston North, 28 Feb-1 Mar.
Handbook...
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2 recent posts from thethinktank@bikecollectives.org - a list serve for bikecollectives (and like minded folks) that can be accessed at: http://www.bikecollectives.org/
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from:thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org on behalf of jamesbleds0e@yahoo.com
subject: carbon bike credits
Grey,
Thanks for your response, I too have attempted to contact various cap and trade outfits with no response from any of them. You have had more luck. I do not trust the big boys to ever or in time for us to make faster or more...
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Presenting Submissions in Person Submissions may be to a Council meeting, special hearing panel, Community Board, or other agency Board meeting Where the opportunity is available, always request in a written submission the opportunity to present your submission in person. You can always withdraw later if it is not critical Don't assume your audience have read or can recall your written submission
Reasons for submitting in person
A number of strategic opportunities:
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A lot simpler than a "technical"/detailed submission May be a simple email or reply post form with "I support/Don't Support" Can be viewed with some importance by Politicians trying to gauge level of support (sometimes too much importance...) Can be useful to encourage lots of members to submit simple submissions like this (provide them with email address, website, and feedback forms) Staff reporting on numbers and comments varies around the place "Numbers Game" Submissions
General Comments
A lot simpler than a "technical"/detailed submission May be a simple email...