Seven years ago I was hugely involved in a significant exercise in the biking space: a national cycle safety panel. It was an amazing experience that led to the forging of many great ongoing connections with some talented people. More …
Category: Cycle-centric ideas
Bright ideas about cycling
Biketober – Spokes Tuesday Transport Seminars
Principally Biketober is about getting out on your bike and discovering the city. It is especially for those who may not have ridden so much in the past, but have discovered that our new cycleways, shared paths and other recently …
Flashback Friday – Cycling in Madrid
The welcome news in the last day that Spain has come to the rescue with some additional vaccines for us brings to mind previous mutterings on this site about the cycling provisions over there. Regular guest blogger Robert has been …
Flashback Friday: Biking and COVID-19 in Christchurch
And so, here we are again… a few Covid cases locally and we have another full-on lockdown to contend with, and all that goes with that. At time of publishing, we don’t know yet whether Christchurch might get an early …
Survey on Cycling Opportunities in Christchurch
Here’s a request from student George van Pelt:
SURVEY – CALLING ALL CANTABRIANS!
This year I am writing my thesis on cycling opportunities in Christchurch after the earthquakes. This project is being undertaken as partial fulfilment of the Master of …
Progress on Chch Cycling Projects
It’s a chilly old time of it in Christchurch lately, and it can feel sometimes like not much is happening locally on the cycle front. Actually there are quite a few projects on the go, either physically on the ground …
Flashback Friday: Thoughts from Velo-City Global 2014 Adelaide
It’s hard to picture while Covid currently rages across Australia, but back in 2014 hundreds of people from around the globe descended on Adelaide to take part in the first instance of a global cycling conference happening down under. …
Flashback Friday: Perceived Danger or Actual Danger?
Just the other day I saw another comment on social media by a Chch local stating how cycling in the city is very scary and puts them off. It’s a common enough reaction I see (even more so after the …
Chch Airport bike parking
I recently had occasion to take an early flight from Christchurch – too early for my usual “bike and bus” combo. So I decided to bike the whole way for once; a reasonable trek from the south side of …
Flashback Friday: How should we tackle Cycle Safety in NZ?
It’s been a tough past month safety-wise for cycling, with the tragic death of two people cycling, one in Auckland then one in Christchurch. That still only takes the total of cycle fatalities for the year to 4, but …
Flashback Friday: Cycling Stuff from Wellington
It’s easy to forget here in Christchurch that other places around NZ haven’t had the luxury of the cycleways that have been rolled out in our city over the past few years. While people will say “ah, but Christchurch is …
Flashback Friday – Clever Cycling Stuff: Cycle Bypasses
Gah, it feels like all I have managed to do lately on this site is recycle a few posts for Flashback Fridays, even though I have a bunch of other post ideas half-done or fermenting in my mind. Sorry folks, …
Flashback Friday: Learning from Ilam Road
One of the things I realised when I was in The Netherlands a few years back was that their great cycle infrastructure hadn’t happened overnight – it had been a series of gradual improvements as lessons had been learned from …
Flashback Friday: What “Quick Wins” would you like?
There’s often a lot of focus on the big flagship projects to help cycling, like the Major Cycle Routes. And, to their credit, they have already started to turn around cycling demand and safety in the city. But many of …
Flashback Friday: Cycling to Events
It’s been a very busy week of work and social activities; hence the lack of blogposts lately. One of those events (pre-lockdown) was the Electric Avenue music festival – very fun, but disappointing again to see zero consideration of bike …
Flashback Friday: Where should our next Open Streets be held?
Cycle infrastructure is a key part of the biking renaissance here in Chch, but it’s also important to have a variety of events and other initiatives supporting these activities as well. We’re fairly lucky to have a pretty good selection …
Flashback Friday: Dealing with Cycling Safety in NZ
Concerns about the safety of cycling in NZ certainly haven’t disappeared in recent times, and sadly we still have a number of deaths and serious injuries occurring every year. Still, many of the current efforts in this space (including considerable …
Photo of the Day: Rangiora Bike & Ride
There seems to have been a bit of a theme about bike parking in our posts of the past week or so, so let me continue that trend with a good example I came across recently, up in Rangiora. As …
Flashback Friday: Learning from the Dutch
Christchurch has been down the cycle network planning/design path for a while now and nationally the state-of-the-art has also progressed quite a lot. But seven years ago, it was a brave new world embarking on our Major Cycle Routes programme. …
Bike Parking at Major Events
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Great Kiwi Beer Festival in Hagley Park, along with 15,000 others apparently. Not surprisingly, given those numbers, I figured that the most sensible way to get there was by bike, to …