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CL-2014-02-Email.Pdf 3 Submissions for October Chainlinks Articles and local group content by 27 August ARTICLES Email content to: [email protected] ASK QUESTIONS, like: ✦ What is your transport policy? Pictures: >500kb, >1mb Vote Cycling ✦ preferred. 1024 x 768 pixels What have you done, and what Patrick Morgan will you do, to make my town Advertising by 27 August: Do you love cycling? Want more bike-friendly? [email protected]. safer cycling? Whether you’re ✦ Do you support safer speed a family, a mountain biker, a limits in shopping and resi- roadie, a frock-on-bike, a com- dential streets? muter or simply love to ride, ✦ Do you support making now’s the time to act! on-road cycle lanes or sepa- rated cycle facilities? CAN needs a million and a half New HAVE YOUR SAY Talk to your help to Zealanders cycle, friends, family and make cycling and most of them vote colleagues about why an issue at cycling matters. Write to the general election on 20 Sep- newspapers, post on social tember. Candidates must realise media, attend election meetings that a million and a half New and keep asking questions. n Zealanders cycle, and most of CAN: Cycling Advocates them vote. You can help in these See CAN’s voting guide at Network ways: can.org.nz/votecycling CHECK your enrolment at www. PO Box 25424, elections.org.nz. Wellington 6146, New Zealand. MPs pledge action Tel 04 972 2552 VOTE for the party and candidate [email protected] that best reflects your views on after crashes www.can.org.nz cycling. Registered Charity no.: CC36909 Patrick Morgan ORGANISE Team up with others. Chainlinks Contact people in your area On 2 April, student nurse Sharla ISSN 1175-9364 (print) through can.org.nz/local-groups.You Haerewa died when a truck ISSN 1174-3409 (online) can also find us on Facebook. turned into her path and dragged [email protected] SUPPORT CAN Join us! — there’s her along a road in Christchurch. Editors: power in numbers. Sharla was riding in a cycle lane Miriam Richardson and Claire Pascoe with lights and high-vis gear. Only MAKE A DONATION. Volunteers do Copy editors: four days later, teacher Jocelyn most of our work, but we need John Rhodes and Lara Hawke Goodwin died in a crash with a your support to run an office, milk tanker in Palmerston North. produce Chainlinks, maintain our The views expressed in Chainlinks are not She too was riding in a cycle lane. website and campaign for cycling. necessarily those of CAN. GET INFORMED Check out what Shortly afterwards, CAN or- parties say about cycling. Invite ganised a rally at Parliament at candidates to a meeting and ask which three MPs­ — Associate FRONT COVER PHOTO: about their priorities. Invite them Transport Minister Michael on a ride for a first-hand look at Woodhouse, Labour Transport ©2014 Georgina Gilmour, cycling issues. Adam on bike Spokesperson Darien Fenton and continues p4 Publishing 4 Bike Wise Month 2014: Kiwis loved riding their bikes this summer GOVERNMENT MPs pledge continues Estelle Reid Greens Transport Spokesperson Julie Anne Genter — committed to While some areas in New Zealand experienced a summer that better safety for cyclists. won’t go down in history as a stunner, many people were still able ‘We’re doing too little to protect to enjoy the simple pleasure of getting on a bike and going for a the 1.5 million New Zealanders ride. This February marked the 12th anniversary of Bike Wise, the who ride bikes’, said CAN project national programme that celebrates cycling and encourages more manager Patrick Morgan. ‘Our Kiwis to get on their bikes more often. message to politicians is they can no longer ignore cycle safety. A variety of events pulled the crowds Cycling advocates must keep pressure on them to get action.’ Event numbers are on the up and up, with the over 800 registered this year drawing an estimated 69,000 participants. The cornerstone events in The rally at Parliament drew 125 the Bike Wise programme continue to be Bike Wise Month and Go By people to celebrate the lives of Bike Day, both of which take place in February. However, coordinators are those lost while cycling and push encouraged to build on the momentum and run a range of events for change to stop the deaths. throughout the year. Afterwards they rode to Wellington’s Wharewaka, School cycle safety sessions coordinated by where the NZTA Cycling the NZ Police are increasingly popular, as are Safety Panel was workplace ‘Go By Bike Day’ events. Six meeting. The panel is passport challenge-style programmes were considering protected piloted around the country and initial cycle lanes on busy feedback has been extremely positive. roads, traffic calming, Events for women are also increasing, and education for all especially those that include a bike mainte- road users. nance lesson. ‘Its report is due in September, and we want to know what Be Bright on your bike political parties think before the Now that daylight saving has ended and the days are getting shorter, the election’, said Patrick Morgan. Be Bright campaign is in full swing. Many centres throughout New Zealand are running a series of activities designed to encourage people to be more Brian Broad, Interim CEO at visible when cycling in low-light and poor weather conditions. Initiatives BikeNZ, said that even one cyclist include using roving ambassadors who stop cyclists without lights and death is one too many, and that offer to fit lights and reflectors on their bikes at no cost, and safety packs the tragic incidents further delivered to organisations and sports clubs. The mission is to inspire highlight the need for immediate people to be safe and be seen on their commute. change. ‘BikeNZ is committed to cycle safety, and strongly supports If you need to brush up about the rules cyclists should follow during hours CAN’s memorial rides that are of darkness, or when visibility is poor, take a look at the Bike Wise likewise committed to bringing website. There are also some excellent value high-vis goodies in the Bike about vital changes to infra- Wise shop. structure and road user be- haviour,’ he said. So while the summer weather may have come to If you have any questions an end, the Bike Wise team is still hard at work or comments, please Events were held also in Hamilton making sure New Zealanders have the opportunity contact 0508 BY BIKE or and Golden Bay. n to enjoy cycling and the associated benefits! n [email protected]. 5 Cycling, building community and the election David Hawke At the recent CAN-Do representatives from each of the three main political parties gave presentations and answered questions. Because only a small proportion of CAN’s membership attended, we wanted the political messages to get a wider hearing. We asked each politician to contribute 400 words on the CAN-Do theme of the role of cycling in building community. From then on, I rode to school every It didn’t seem safe for him to cycle to Labour day and spent weekends going on school. When he went on long cycle long bike rides with my sister. Cycling trips, we worried. Somehow, everyone Darien Fenton, safety wasn’t something we worried had come to believe that cyclists Transport spokesperson too much about and the worst didn’t have a right to be on our roads. accident I had was falling off in an When I was growing up, everyone But it’s changing. People are cycling embarrassed heap. rode a bike. My parents gave me more than ever — to work, to school, for my first bike on my 10th birthday. Something happened in between. recreation and on the growing number It wasn’t flash. It was a second Our cities and towns grew and with of cycle ways throughout the country. hand do-up, but it was the best them more roads and car de- pendency. When my son got his first present I ever had. bike and developed a love of cycling, we were cautious. continues next page similar improvements for cyclists, so paths, improving roading, identifying National we set up a Cycle Safety Panel to our highest-risk intersections and review cycling on our roads. making them safer, and lowering the Chester Burrows blood alcohol limit for drivers. Associate Minister of Social The panel is tasked with developing Development comprehensive and practical recom- The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is mendations for central and local continuing to promote safe cycling National recognises the important government to improve cycling safety, through a range of education pro- role cycling plays in our society. so we can encourage cycling as a safe grammes, and the National Land transport choice. Transport Programme (NLTP) 2012– New Zealand has seen a significant 2015 invests into improved road, reduction in the number of serious Alongside this, the government is walking, and cycling infrastructure. car crashes in recent years. However, continuing on our work to improve the trend has not been mirrored by safety by investing in separated cycle continues next page A recent report by the Victoria years to make cycling safer by Greens Transport Policy Institute has con- improving existing cyclelanes and cluded that investment in cycling and creating new ones. Julie-Anne Genter other active transport modes can The Green Party applauds the work Transport spokesperson reduce pollution and congestion, that councils such as the Dunedin increase property values and support Cycling is a healthy, affordable City Council are undertaking, but local economic development and central government can do more.
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