The plan is a beacon of quick sensible fixes for people walking and wheeling. A few crucial tweaks would make the design even stronger.
Bike Auckland’s Chief Biking Officer Fiáin d’Leafy was in great company for Road Safety Week when they were shortlisted for the Annual Yellow Ribbon Road Safety Hero Award.
Calmer, slower streets are a fast, guaranteed way of getting more people walking, scooting and cycling. And getting people using active modes is, in turn, the number one, easiest, cheapest, best way of cutting Auckland’s emissions.
Some potential relief on the horizon for communities keen to keep their safe speeds — if we fight for it.
There are several hundred crashes involving bicycles each year on New Zealand’s roads. Here’s what to do if it happens.
Hill Street is a perfect storm – a complicated and confusing bottleneck with high traffic from the five roads going into it. Now Transport Minister Simeon Brown has withdrawn Government funding for long-awaited improvements – at least in part because they include cycleways.
