I hope that everyone in Canterbury enjoyed a nice long weekend this Canterbury Anniversary! My partner and I decided to visit the Canterbury Agricultural (or A&P) Show on Friday, and it was a fun few hours looking around at the …
Tag: Bike parking
Flashback Friday: Bike and bus to the airport
Another busy week and that included a day trip up to Wellington last Tuesday. With an early flight there, I fell back on my tried and trusted airport connection of bike+bus there and back home at night. It’s a simple …
Flashback Friday: Suburban Car Parking and the Bike
This week I’ve been doing some more industry cycle planning/design training around the country. Amongst the various discussions at these sessions is how to deal with on-street parking, often to free up space for better cycling options. It’s a perennial …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in London – More Pictures
Currently I’m working on a couple of interesting and somewhat related projects. One is some research looking at how ways to reallocate road-space (e.g. remove a traffic lane for a cycleway…) can reduce vehicle-kms travelled. The other is to …
Flashback Friday: Münster – Germany does Cycling too
Earlier this week, I ran another Cycle Planning & Design industry course here in Christchurch. While increasingly it showcases some of the good practice cycling to be seen around NZ, we also include a few nice examples from overseas where …
Biking to Events: Summer 2023 Progress Report
It’s been a fun last few weeks around Ōtautahi Christchurch, with plenty of great events to attend and enjoy. As much as possible, I like to bike to things if I can – usually the whole drama of travelling to/from …
Flashback Friday: The pub run – by bike
Compliments of the season! I hope that most of you will enjoy a well-deserved summer break and perhaps get out on those lovely new cycleways sometime too (I’m going to do some scouting of them later today…). Our workplace finished …
Flashback Friday – Mythbusting: The business benefits of bikeways
It’s that time of the year when everyone is getting a bit busier doing their final arrangements for Christmas gifts and gatherings as well as also enjoying various parties and other end-of-year celebrations. For retail and hospitality businesses that can …
Photo of the Day: Hagley Oval Bike Parking
While we’re on a bit of a theme about bike parking, I’ll regale you with my experience last Wednesday at Hagley Oval. As many of you may know, NZ was playing India in a one-day cricket game that afternoon/evening, …
Flashback Friday: Where would you like some bike parking?
The recent consultation about the streets around Te Kaha highlighted a key question in my mind of just how much bike parking they expect to need for visitors to the new stadium (spoiler: I’m not convinced they’ve provided enough…). Elsewhere …
Flashback Friday: Getting to the A&P Show by Bike
Happy holiday! It’s a nice feeling to have the day off while the rest of the country is still working… Some of you might have gone to the Canterbury A&P Show this week – some of you might have even …
Flashback Friday: Inside the new Bus Interchange – What’s in it for Cycling
On my fairly regular trips out of town I often use a bike-bus combo to get to and from the airport. The central Bus Interchange is a great facility to join the dots here and they really did do a …
Flashback Friday – Vauban and Rieselfeld, Freiburg: Suburbs for Cycling
Last week I reminded you about my time visiting the German city of Freiburg and some of its transport-friendly aspects that the similar-sized Christchurch could emulate. Another feature that Greater Chch could do well to consider is how Freiburg develops …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in Amsterdam – does it live up to the hype?
Pay attention to some of the debates that occur in the media comments sections about cycleways and at some point a naysayer is invariably going to say that “[NZ town X] is not like Amsterdam!” Ignoring the fact that a …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in Utrecht
Happy Easter! I hope you’re managing to get in some bike rides to work off all the additional chocolate… It’s been an interesting week, not least because I managed to catch Covid. I’ve been pleasantly surprised that my symptoms have …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in Bristol
Any time that someone claims their city is too hilly for lots of cycling (and conversely, that’s why everyone bikes in Chch…) I invariably think about all of the hilly cities I have visited around the world that somehow buck …
Flashback Friday: Interesting cycle stuff from New York
I’m still struggling to get many original posts out there right now – seem to be straight back into a busy workload for the year. So for now, another Flashback Friday will have to suffice, again returning to my North …
Flashback Friday – Rotorua: Cycling Bubbling Up
I’ve just been up in Rotorua for a few days of work in the region, a place I seem to visit every 2-3 years or so. It brought to mind one of my previous visits, back in 2016 when I …
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: 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 …