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 …

Merry Christmas, and I hope you’re enjoying Boxing Day as well! The summer holidays are always a great time to get out and explore a few new places by bike. If you need some suggestions on where to go, guest …

It’s quite an interesting exercise to look back over the years since the Christchurch earthquakes and subsequent rebuild and just remind yourself of how far we have come as a cycling city. Almost exactly 10 years ago, for example, a …

You’ll recall how late last year, there was a night-time ban on allowing bikes being carried on public buses, which then turned into an all-time ban. Well, finally after several months of discussions and testing, Metro Christchurch buses are …

Another calendar year flies by and we’re ready to herald in 2025 – Happy New Year! For many of us, we might be grateful to see the back of 2024, with various worrying signs for cycling foreshadowed back in our …

Seasons greetings everyone! I hope you will have a fun Christmas and summer break and also hopefully get out and about on your bike when you can too…

I’ll pop up an end-of-year review in a week, but certainly one …

As you might imagine, I’m not a big fan of many of the current Transport Minister’s actions, particularly when he seems hell-bent on eradicating most funding for walking & cycling and lower speed limits. So it is a slight surprise …

{UPDATE: there is now an all-day restriction on using bikes on bus racks until further notice}

For many people, getting to put your bike on the front racks of our buses is a handy feature; just last weekend I used …

Recently I did some research on travel mode shift and safety and bus transport came out as the safest road transport mode. That’s probably cold comfort (literally…) for many of the occupants of the bus crashes near Tekapo yesterday; thankfully …

The Press have been running a series of articles over the past week or so about transport issues in Christchurch; you might have seen the one last week looking at the hassles of getting our cycleway network completed (by …