More cycle-friendly transport projects continue to happen around the city, with the news this week of the start of construction around the Wigram/Hayton intersection. We first heard of consultation for this (and other projects) over two years ago, as reported …
Tag: Cycle lanes
Flashback Friday Guest Post Part 6 – Cycling in Porto
Tracey and I are currently looking at plans for where we might head to in Europe next year. One of my friends is currently touring around Europe and recently visited Porto, the “City of Bridges”, in Portugal. And over a …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in Los Angeles
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If you’ve been paying attention lately, you might have seen that there has been a bit of a kerfuffle in Los Angeles recently, with President Trump ordering in the National Guard to quell supposed “rioters”. Certainly the USA in general …
Flashback Friday: Ferry Road Streetscape Improvements at Woolston Village
In the past week or so; the topic of car parking has loomed large in Christchurch. Firstly when proposed cycle lanes along Glandovey & Idris Rds were canned due to the expected reduction in on-street parking (never mind that the …
Photo of the Day: The challenges of turning right
My daily commute to work sees me travelling up Waltham Rd to Moorhouse Ave and then around to Fitzgerald Ave. Mostly OK, thanks to the various cycle lanes, although Fitzgerald Ave can be a bit daunting. But there’s one …
Cycling in Chch 2023 in Review: The Good, the Bad, the in-Between
And just like that, another year is over and we ponder what has happened since we last reviewed the state of cycling Chch at the end of 2022 – suffice to say that it seems like a mix of things……
The Simple Power of a Bit of Paint
A couple of weeks ago I was working at home for a few days, so it was my partner who first alerted me to a quiet little improvement that had been made to her commuting route along Waltham Rd. Some …
Flashback Friday: Can e-scooters and bikes co-exist?
Perhaps I should have re-titled this “can e-scooters and pedestrians co-exist?”, as we’ve just heard that Waka Kotahi (NZTA) have decided to renew their Gazette notice declaring that “e-scooters (up to 300W) are not motor vehicles” and are thus able …
Have Your Say – Cycleways in New Projects
It’s a busy time for Christchurch City Council as they roll out various projects across the city, both in terms of planning/design and implementation. At the moment there are three very interesting ones out for consultation that have some good …
Flashback Friday: Cycling in London – More Pictures
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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 …
Cycling in Tauranga: Hits and Misses
Two weeks ago I was in Tauranga attending the annual NZ Transportation Conference (which partly explains the relative dearth of posts lately…). It was my first visit back to the Bay City in over 4 years, and over 6 …
Photo of the Day: Good Cycle Temporary Traffic Management
Flashback Friday: Where could we easily add cycle lanes?
It’s coming up nearly 7 years since I changed jobs, and with it my daily cycle commute route. My home location shifted more recently, but the final run into work still traverses Waltham Rd and Fitzgerald Ave, with all the …
Flashback Friday Photo: More new Cycle Lane Separators
The Major Cycleway programme continues apace and that includes heaps of separated cycleways, off-road pathways and quiet neighbourhood greenways. But that shouldn’t overlook the role of the humble painted cycle lane to fill in some of the gaps cost-effectively. And …
Photo of the Day: Lincoln Rd Bus/Bike Lane
There’s been a lot of transport activity happening around the city lately (and more to come). The other week I showed you some developments to major cycleways in the south-east; meanwhile, heading towards the south-west there has been another …
Flashback Friday – Return to Chch: Cycle lane separators on curves
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The growing concern about addressing climate change is seeing various people look at ways of rolling out infrastructure for cycling faster than the usual laboured full consultation/design/construct process (Harewood Road anyone?). Nationally that is meaning things like the Streets …
Flashback Friday: Hagley/Hospital street works so far
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We cycling advocates can be a picky bunch sometimes; as I illustrated with yesterday’s post, something new might be mostly good but there always seems to be something they could have done a little better… This is not a …
Flashback Friday: Are painted cycle lanes dangerous?
In the past 5 years or so, we have seen a significant roll-out of the Major Cycleway programme around Chch, which has been fantastic. That doesn’t mean that traditional painted cycle lanes have been completely eschewed; I can think of …
Flashback Friday: Where would you like some Separator Posts?
Long before separated cycleways were commonplace around Christchurch, one way to improve the level of comfort with existing painted cycle lanes was to add some occasional vertical posts to keep errant motorists at bay. Even now, this relatively low-cost measure …
Flashback Friday(-ish): So what’s a Sharrow and do we want them here?
It’s been a rather busy week work-wise for me and with much of it spent down in Dunedin attending the latest 2WALKandCYCLE Conference (more on that in a future post…). So this week’s Flashback Friday has been a little late …