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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 Now Transport Minister Simeon Brown has withdrawn Government funding for long-awaited improvements – at least in part because they include cycleways.

Riding through Cornwall Park you see so many people strolling, jogging, wheeling, picnicking, watching animals and smelling flowers. It’s also a particularly safe location to learn and build confidence on their bikes. Lucy Ruck writing to the NZ Herald ponders why accessing the park without a car isn’t easy and is downright unsafe if you try by bike.

Fifty-nine ghost bikes in a central Auckland square are a heart-wrenching symbol of the folly of fast streets. Each bike represents a person who has been killed while cycling in Aotearoa New Zealand in the last five years. It’s a fitting tribute for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

Are we actually improving things for cycling, for road safety, for climate change in Auckland? Or do we double down on encasing the Status Quo in literal concrete? New AT […]

Bike Albany have sent a letter to Auckland Transport and Auckland Council requesting that a safe cycleway and pedestrian crossings along Oteha Valley Road are included in the next round […]

Māngere could and should be cycling nirvana: easy flat terrain, lots of schools and churches, great local town centres, and stunning parks and natural features (go ask that maunga!). But […]

The issue of car-transporters on Great North Road has been in the news recently, in this Metro article and this follow-up piece (including a quote from our chair, Barb Cuthbert. The […]

You never really forget what a close pass feels like. You’re tootling happily along on your bike and then, without warning, a motor vehicle roars past, sometimes close enough to […]