By: Meerkat

Meerkat — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:19:55 +0000

Hey LennyBoy, I took your advice and went to the CAN Do 2013 conference in Auckland.
It was as excellent as you said it would be. ALL the speakers were inspirational.
Everyone wanted to hear about Christchurch and were so JEALOUS that our City Council has got off its butt and put some funds into cycling infrastructure here. At the time of the conference, they warned me that promises of funding didn’t equate to actual funding … but, hey! Now they are extra jealous because the funding was approved AND we just got those fantastic cycle infrastructure guidelines approved too.
The people there were amazing; they have got their eye on the bigger picture of sustainable transport and I didn’t spot one kook or Die Hard Radical among them! They were all pretty ordinary but very switched on folk. They also encouraged cycling bods to keep persisting with pushing for change, and that we are in for the long haul; after all, it’s the past 30 years of pushing uphill (forgive metaphor) from those who have cycled before us that has got CHCH to where it is today!
Spokes Canterbury is the envy of the other local cycling advocacy organisations as far as I could tell; I’m proud to be a member and will continue to come to the meetings and help out wherever I can; clearly, the work of Spokes has made a big difference to cycling here in Canterbury.
Go Spokes! Go CAN!

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By: Meerkat