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 …

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 …

Three months ago, my partner and I spent a couple of nights in the German capital of Berlin; our first time there. While Berlin is highly regarded for an extensive network of trams and trains, it also does cycling…

While in Europe, we managed to spend a couple of (stupidly hot…) nights in Zürich, Switzerland. I was last there in mid-2015, as reported in this previous blogpost. Not much has changed in terms of fairly good cycling …

Greetings from Ireland! My partner and I have arrived in the Emerald Isle for the first time, having just spent the past few days in Amsterdam and elsewhere around the Netherlands. The last time I was in the Netherlands was …

Greetings from Europe! My partner and I have made it halfway around the world… In between getting over the jet lag, we have so far explored the beaches and coastlines of Santorini (Greece) and Dubrovnik (Croatia). A little over a …

It’s coming up to D-Day when my partner and I head off to the other side of the world for a few weeks – more details about that tomorrow… In the meantime, we’re busy putting the finishing touches on our …

Last weekend I biked out to Hornby to help Spokes Canterbury gather some feedback on improving cycling in Christchurch. I mostly took the South Express cycle route, and a couple of the stand-alone cycle crossings along the way reminded me …

Earlier this week, Star News featured a very nice article about one of our regular contributors Robert Fleming. Over more than a decade, Robert has contributed more than 60 blog posts (not counting Flashback Fridays), including updates on cycleway …