By the time this post is published, my partner and I will winging our way from Christchurch towards Singapore on the first leg of our nearly-6 week long tour around Europe. And, as you can see from our itinerary below, …
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Photo of the Day: Rolleston Ave (former) shared path
The potential risks of shared paths have suddenly come into the spotlight this week following the sad story of the woman who was struck by a passing cyclist on a shared path along Wooldridge Rd. This incident certainly highlights …
Flashback Friday First Look: Little River motorway link path
One of the interesting projects I’ve been working on lately is the development of some new guidance for Auckland Transport on providing for people walking, cycling and horse-riding in rural (or peri-urban) areas. It’s certainly involved digging out some good …
Flashback Friday Photo of the Day: Anzac Day Bike Parking
Last weekend was an Anzac long weekend, and certainly a busy one here in Christchurch. You will have seen my recent post looking at bike parking options around the new stadium. And it’s a common question that comes up …
Bike parking at Te Kaha (One NZ) Stadium
The weekend just gone in Christchurch has been an awesome feast of activity as the new One NZ Stadium (aka Te Kaha) hosted the Super Rugby round for all ten teams. It certainly brought the crowds in; the central city …
Flashback Friday: Has Auckland Cycling turned a corner?
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After last weekend’s photo-op, the Auckland theme continues because it happens that I’ve just spent the past couple of days in the City of Sails doing some guest lectures at Auckland University (including one on rural cycle safety…). A …
Photo of the Day: New Victoria St cycleway in central Auckland
Away from Christchurch, there is a lot of excitement building up for the final commissioning and opening of the new City Rail Link in central Auckland. It has taken several years and certainly resulted in considerable construction disruption for the …
Flashback Friday: Shutl brings e-bike subscriptions on demand to Christchurch
Earlier this week, we introduced to the new WorkRide bike purchasing scheme. You may not know that the founders of WorkRide actually started off first looking into an earlier e-bike subscription service, Shutl, nearly 4 years ago before pivoting after …
WorkRide: An opportunity to get bikes for your employees
As mentioned previously, all of the current concern about driving with high fuel costs has seen a surge of interest in alternative travel modes, including more people looking at buying new bikes. But what if you might struggle to …
Flashback Friday: New cycleways in Wellington are making a difference
With the current surge of interest in cycling, it was encouraging to see the other day local advocacy group Spokes Canterbury urging Chch City Council to fast-track rolling out low-cost cycleways across the city similar in style to the Rolleston …
Chch cycle counter update Mar 2026: Steady as she goes?
It’s been about two years since I last had a good look at how cycling numbers have been trending across Christchurch city. At the time (March 2024), the numbers were very encouraging, with good growth across Major Cycle Route …
Flashback Friday: CTV does Cycling
In the past week, I’ve been video interviewed twice, as well as providing comment for The Press, all discussing how the current fuel price spikes are seeing greater demand for active transport and public transport. Expect to see the …
Flashback Friday: Chch cycling continues to rise
If there’s one silver lining from all the current drama around fuel prices in NZ is that many people are considering alternatives like walking, biking and using public transport. That was highlighted earlier in the week when it was …
Flashback Friday: Todd Litman in Christchurch – May 13th
Hot on the heels of the recent visit through our fair city by John Simmerman from Active Towns, let’s cast our mind back to when other international active mode experts have graced our shores. The list has included Dan …
Draft 2026/27 Chch Annual Plan – Kicking the Cycleway can down the road?
It’s that time of the year when Councils across the country review their budgets for the coming year to see what they can spend and how that might affect people’s rates bills. Christchurch City Council are currently consulting on their …
Photo of the Day: John Simmerman visits an Active Town…
While I was at the Transportation Conference last week, one of the people I met up with was John Simmerman, an American health professional from Hawaii who runs a non-profit organisation called Active Towns. Over the past decade …
New northern Wellington cycleways coming along
Last week I was up to Wellington for a few days attending a Transportation Conference there (lots of great cycling-related papers there too by the way!). On one of the afternoons we got the opportunity to get out and …
Flashback Friday: Do cycle crossings need a bell?
Last weekend I biked out to Hornby to help Spokes Canterbury gather some feedback on improving cycling in Christchurch. I mostly took the South Express cycle route, and a couple of the stand-alone cycle crossings along the way reminded me …
Have your say on changes to Cycling Road Rules
Last year, we foreshadowed the announcement by Transport Minister Chris Bishop of several planned changes to NZ road rules, including several quite relevant to cycling. Last week, the Government launched consultation on these Rule changes, with public submissions due …
The final week of Bike Month 2026 is upon us…
I hope that everyone has been enjoying lots of different activities this month as part of the Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2026 – as I posted a few weeks back, there certainly has been no shortage of them around…
I’ve …