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What would make it easier for New Plymouth residents to leave the car at home when they head to school, work or elsewhere? The New Plymouth District Council are surveying to find out.  Read about it here:

http://www.newplymouthnz.com/HaveYourSay/Consultations/WalkCycleBusSurve...

They want to know "What makes it difficult for you to walk, cycle or bus to work, school, or another destination?"

Fill in the survey form on-line here:

http://www.newplymouthnz.com/forms/WalkCycleBusSurvey.aspx

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Danish architect Jan Gehl was asked by the Wellington City Council how to improve Wellington urban design. Are his recommendations still of value?

World-renowned urban design specialist Jan Gehl visited Wellington in 2004. He said the city needed greater pedestrian priority, cycle lanes and light rail.
Commissioned by the council, Copenhagen’s Gehl came up with about 94 recommendations, from taming vehicular traffic, stepping up pedestrian priority, supporting alternative transport, and improving links to the waterfront.
Councillor Celia Wade-Brown...

City staff wants to dedicate a lane of University Avenue to cyclists this summer, insisting it won't slow automobile traffic, as they create a denser bike network downtown.

Transportation staff is proposing bicycle lanes along University Avenue and Queen's Park Crescent.

Both roads have four lanes in each direction, with a median in between. If a pilot project is approved, one lane in each direction adjacent to the median will be dedicated to cyclists, using flexible bollards to protect them from traffic, from July to September.

"Traffic capacity analysis...

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced “the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of nonmotorized.”

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a “major policy revision” that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving.

“Today I want to announce a sea change,” he wrote on his blog last week. “This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of nonmotorized.”

The new policy, which was introduced a few days after Mr. LaHood gave a well-received speech from atop a table...

Sporty cyclists few in Amsterdam but individualized and stylish cycle gear abounds. Photo A. Streeter.

In Amsterdam, they say, cycling is like breathing - everyone does it and nobody really thinks too much about it. Kids learn to cycle before they are of school age - push cycles abound - and ride (without helmets) to school with or without parent supervision. But we're not in Amsterdam, and women especially have myriad reasons why they don't ride a bike. To get to the heart of the reasons women do and don't cycle, The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle...

morena

was trolling through NZTA website looking for info on School Travel Plans and found this page which has links to essentially all the NZTA documentation for Community programmes, which includes  the world of walking and cycling'

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/planning-for-community-programmes/6.ht...

cheers, chris

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Urban Biking's Next Generation: 5 Snazzy Innovations

Bike sharing is bursting out all over, and Paris' Vélib system was the urban bike sharing breakthrough that really started this fast-spreading trend. In México City there's now Ecobici (1,100 bikes); in Teheran there's Bike House (around 425 bikes), in India there's FreMo (100 bikes), and in Denver the much-hyped B-cycle will kick off on Earth Day. And what does the father of bike sharing, Luud Schimmelpinnink - he conceived the White Bicycle system back in 1965 - think of all this? While happy that elements of his...

A new website, http://cyclingauckland.co.nz, has been launched today.

According to the 'About' blurb on the website, "it is a grass roots collaborative website that is written by a diverse group of people, with different opinions and ideas about cycling that are borne out of their own experiences of riding in Auckland." The idea for the website was conceived by Jenny Marshall, a.k.a. Unity Finesmith of Auckland Cycle Chic and co-organiser of the Auckland chapter of Frocks on Bikes, as the next step in the renaissance of cycling as an important transport option in...