I’ve just spent the past week attending the Australasian Road Safety Conference in Sydney; some useful and interesting lessons and takeaways in there. Cycling safety topics certainly featured across several sessions (including Tom Flood’s insightful keynote presentation), and it …

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 …

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 …

Having first kicked off here in 2024, the 3rd Christchurch Outdoor Expo is happening on Fri 2 – Sun 4 October at Canterbury Agricultural Park in Christchurch – and the organisers have got 20% OFF tickets for Cycling in Christchurch…

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 …

And just like that, we’re at the end of February. It also means the end of the Aotearoa Bike Challenge for 2025; I hope that you’ve been busy getting some rides in throughout the month and maybe having your colleagues …

Can you believe we’ve already ticked off one month of 2025… And now, having arrived in February it’s the cue for everyone to start getting on their bikes even more for this year’s Aotearoa Bike Challenge!

The regulars will …

Last week we celebrated the notable milestone of the half-millionth bike traversing the Antigua Boatshed bridge cycle counter. Let’s look back to when it was first installed over six years ago, as reported in this blog post from June 2018…

I’ll continue the Palmerston North theme of late, by mentioning one of the successful outcomes from the 2018 2WALKandCYCLE Conference there – a couple of big award wins for Christchurch-based projects, as first reported back in Aug 2018. The …

I had an interesting conversation earlier this week with a reporter, talking about how people are getting used to using our cycleways as they get ever busy, including lots of passing each other and queuing at intersections. It’s a nice …