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What's coming up in March?

CAT forum:  On Tueday 9th March, the next Canterbury Active Transport (CAT) forum will be held at Evironment Canterbury from 1 – 3 pm.  Come earlier (from midday)  if you want to do some networking and catch a light lunch.

Walk to Work Day.  Walk to work through the square on Wednesday 10th March and catch the Living Streets Crew handing out some breakfast and other goodies between 7 and 9 am.  

Safer Pedestrian Journeys

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Roads will be safer for pedestrians when actions outlined in the Safer Journeys strategy are implemented.

 “We applaud the move to change the give way rules for turning traffic”, says Peter Kortegast, President of Living Streets Aotearoa.  “Drivers concentrating on oncoming traffic, and whether they have right of way to turn, often fail to see pedestrians crossing at intersections, with tragic results.  Making intersections safer for all road users will cut the number of crashes.”

Review of Walk for your life book

February 18, 2010 by cindy.carmichael
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Walk for your life: Restoring neighbourhood walkways to enhance community life, improve street safety and reduce obesity

By Marie Demers, PH.D

Foreword by James O. Hull

Vital Health Publishing 2006

What a great book! Excellent for those new to walking advocacy.

This book looks at the hostile environment that has been created through urban sprawl and car dependence. Marie’s book offers some good reading on the burden being created by our sedentary lifestyle.

Success for walking advocates

February 15, 2010 by liz thomas
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It's worthwhile taking action when you notice a problem area for pedestrians.  Sometimes you can make a difference!  Recently a walking advocate identified a problem at the entrance to a Khandallah supermarket car park.  There was no indication to motorists that they were crossing a footpath and there weret even in/out arrows for cars painted on the footpath!  He wrote to the supermarket but never got a reply.  However,  the other day he was walking past the supermarket and noticed that they had done everything he had s

Submission to CCC re Hagley Park for Annual planning process

February 15, 2010 by chrys.horn
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This submission was unsolicited but arose from observations that a Spokes submission some years ago (which is included in this submission, into which a great many good observations and ideas had been completely ignored.  This may become an annual submission

Julie-Anne Genter information

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Julie is a transportation planner with McCormick Rankin Cagney consultants.  She is passionate about sustainable transport and sees an extraordinary opportunity to achieve better economic outcomes and more liveable cities with innovative approaches to defining and solving transportation problems.

Her professional experience has centred on ground breaking research into rectifying transportation market distortions; including new methods of economic evaluation of transport and urban design, and strategic approaches to parking management.  

Martin Wedderburn information

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Martin is Principal Transport Planner for Colin Buchanan consultancy.  His work covers a broad range of policy, research and design experience.  He has worked with professionals from a variety of disciplines to develop more holistic transport appraisal methods encompassing the wider economic, health, and environmental impacts of sustainable transport measures. 

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