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Contact: Judy Martin phone 03 453 6667 jmartins at ihug.co.nz
Dunedin Walkers Interest Group, now renamed Living Streets Dunedin, was first formed in June 2007, in response to interest from the Dunedin City Council, who wished to have a formal group to liaise with about pedestrian issues, and with assistance from Liz Thomas of Living Streets Aotearoa.
Our aim is to make Dunedin a more pleasant and safer place for walking, through advocacy and specific projects.
Our first project was to respond to the DCC proposal for the exemption of parking bans on the footpath in certain narrow streets.
(see our written submissions and an opinion piece published in the Otago Daily Times)
Other issues we want to tackle when we get going are: congestion on footpaths; integration with public transport; the value of a walker's army in improving our community in such ways as litter reduction.
Living Streets Dunedin field report on the proposed Octagon corridor, September 2007 (201K pdf)
Submission on proposed exemption to footpath parking ban - 18 July 2007 (146K pdf)
Follow up submission - 18 August 2007 (262K pdf)
Opinion piece for Otago Daily Times - 13 July 2007
Living Streets Dunedin surveyed the local candidates about topical local pedestrian issues and active transport in general.
Thirty two candidates did our survey online, and several more replied by email. Because of the limits of the free survey format, it is easier to present the group frequencies than individual results. We are presenting candidates' responses to open-ended questions in a separate file, as they give the clearest idea of candidates' views. The candidates who responded were generally receptive to and aware of issues facing pedestrians in the city. All candidates agreed that pedestrian convenience, access and safety should be a paramount consideration in any road design.
LSD_survey_freq.pdf (45k pdf)
Text responses to "other" options, and to the question "If elected, what changes would you make for active transport in Dunedin?" are here.
LSD_survey_freq_comm.pdf (156k pdf)
Thanks to Survey Monkey for the free survey hosting tool