The other day my partner and I were biking over to Addington to attend the Christchurch Home Show. On the way, the route took us past the overbridge construction work currently underway on Brougham St, so it seemed an …

As a thank you for my Biketober seminar presentation a couple of weeks ago, I got given a lovely sage green Biketober t-shirt featuring a “Tube”-style map of Christchurch’s cycle network (kudos to Adam Lines for the great design …

It was incredibly sad to hear about the death a week ago of a cyclist near Governors Bay, in what appeared to be a freak chain of events – my sincere sympathies to his family. Looking at the road in …

I’ve just spent two days undertaking KiwiRail certification training for undertaking Level Crossing Safety Impact Assessments (a certain irony then that my current featured post is about safety around tram tracks…). While I have undertaken various LCSIAs in the …

I was up in Auckland a few days ago doing some university guest teaching. As you might expect, I took a bus and train combo from the airport to make my way into town and then back again to the …

The other evening, I caught up with Steven Muir over a drink to chat about a few things biking and our respective thoughts about the current state of the world (and NZ/Chch) when it comes to sustainable transport and climate …

Last week I wrapped up my posts covering various places visited around Europe a few months ago; I also delivered an overview presentation about all my observations last night at the first of the Biketober seminar series. We only briefly …

Soon after our return from Europe, I mentioned how I had managed to snap an updated photo of cyclists while at a Copenhagen intersection in early June. Having regaled you since with posts of several other cities around Europe, it’s …

Hot on the heels of our announcement about next month’s Biketober 2026 programme, let’s cast our mind back to when it was last held three years ago. Not surprisingly, there were a LOT of events on that month too, …

Some of you may recall the very successful Biketober festivals of cycling, set up here originally back in October 2017 and continued annually for several years after that. The last one was back in 2023, after which there was …