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  • Designing a city rather than engineering it

    Here is a video with some interesting points. http://www.vimeo.com/56918135 I’m not sure that I quite get what they mean by ‘lifestyle’ – what did you understand by that?

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  • We support helmet choice

    We support helmet choice – this should come as no surprise to anyone who has passed by this website before. Check out our ‘Helmets‘ page for the quick run down of the issue at hand. But this time we have put it down on paper. The following is a letter of support that we have sent Freestyle Cyclists in Australia to be read out at ...

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  • How to make a crossroad

    This video was posted on Cycling in Wellington recently but I think that it is so good and so informative for complete infrastructure luddites like myself, that I thought it should go on Cycling in Auckland as well …. I’m sure I’ve seen the ‘what not to do’ version around Auckland. Perhaps these Dutch people really kn...

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  • The Olympics

    With the Olympics around the corner, this video seems appropriate … Although appropriate to what, I’m not really sure … do they have synchronised cycling at the Olympics. I’d watch it if they did!

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  • Parking squid

    Imagine having bicycle racks like this down on the waterfront … or a parking octopus … a parking pahutakawa … source: curitiba cycle chic

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  • FYI

    This was recently forwarded to me, so I thought I’d share. 090430Helmet_brochure_for_Velo-city_093 And here’s the latest about the struggles in Fremantle Australia

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  • It’s been a while …

    … since we had a helmet law post, and today .. Wow! This arrived in my inbox from the UK CTC – it very nicely sums up the argument and has some very interesting statistics (if you like that sort of thing!) Cycle-helmets-(the-evidence)_brf Now, I know lots of people will say ‘but these are uk statistics’ but having lived in ...

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  • Auckland Connected

    A publication called ‘Auckland Connected’ was handed out at an industry event last week. The book was written by AECOM Global Cities Institute and “identifies affordability as a key challenge and recommends that Auckland Council be ruthless in its prioritisation of projects that will drive transformational change.” Good n...

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  • San Francisco is on to a good thing!

    This came into my RSS feed this morning and it is chock-a-block full of juicy ideas and information. How about the fact that San Francisco has seen a 71% increase in cycling in the last 5 years, or that they have a cycling goal of 20% of all trips by bicycle by 2020, or that they have built 20 miles of bike lanes in the last 1.5 years, which ...

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  • Copenhagen and Auckland have something in common!

    This video is about the new cycling superhighways in Copenhagen … but could equally be about cycling in Auckland! Obviously, not the cycling superhighways part  … although, there is a tiny amount of progress in infrastructure … the stuck in traffic and it being faster and better on a bicycle part! http://www.vimeo.co...

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  • Tamaki Drive cycle ideas

    I haven’t been to Street Films for a while so I have been checking out some of their recent videos. I came upon this one where American transport engineers are looking at cycle infrastructure in the Netherlands. What I found so amazing is that, not only do the Dutch cities run rings around us (as you’d expect), the American cities are s...

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  • Barn dancing for bicycles

    How is it that people in Groningen and America can cross the road safely like this when apparently, it’s so incredibly dangerous in NZ? http://www.vimeo.com/30836613

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  • Interesting stuff update

    A couple of interesting items have come at me in the last couple of days so I thought I’d share … Sweden is planning to connect its cities Lund and Malmö by building a cyclist superhighway stretching over 12.5 miles. The four-lane highway will be designed to follow alongside railway tracks and have fences and bushes in place to offe...

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  • Paris makes cycling through red lights legal: Should NZ follow?

    The Mail Online reports that Paris has decided to make cycling through red lights legal. Cyclists will be allowed to go straight through or make a right turn (our equivalent of a left turn) on a red. However, cyclists will be held responsible for any accidents that occur. This is possibly more significant in France than here because, I think...

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  • That’s the way to do it!

    Another one for any council people watching. The clear message – most people don’t want to be ‘Cyclists’, they just want to ride a bike. http://www.vimeo.com/21340494

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  • Auckland Cityfix: Sharrows

    Illustration: Bond Street Sharrow Treatment One traffic control device innovation that is being used with a degree of success in North America is the shared land marking or “Sharrow”.  The following describes the use of sharrows in a bicycle network and considers their potential application in Auckland. The Sharrow like any bike...

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  • The ingredients necessary to make a vibrant, cyclized city have been identified.

    Dutch bike: plain, funtional, beautiful/Google images How lucky we were to have an ambassador from the Dutch Cycling Embassy sharing his expertise with us. Marc spoke at length about how cycling is in the mainstream in The Netherlands. From listening to what he said it is possible to attempt to answer a question on many a cyclists’ lips. Wh...

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  • Amsterdamized comes to town…via Radio New Zealand.

    Feel free to provide your own answer to this leading question. It may appear to some that a #wheeledpedestrian cuts a lonely figure in the local cycling landscape. Overwhelmed by the dominant speedsters and sports junkies. That may be the true in a physical sense. However, just because we may be few and far between in this part of the world, the ...

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  • They’ve Got the Horn, Big Time

    Men on Priti Baiks in panama. Check out Jose Castrellon’s series of photographs of Panamanian machismo expressed in the aestheticisation of otherwise basic bicycles. I love the fire extinguisher powered horns. One of the things I love about cycle culture is it’s constant reinvention in wonderful ways we never could have predicted. C...

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  • Very nice campaign!

    Auckland Council should take note of this one … It certainly beats those totally lame ‘breakfasts’

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