Executive Council and staff
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President - Peter Kortegast
Peter is a transportation engineer with a wide range of experience both with local government and Transit NZ projects. He is a specialist road safety engineer with a passion for improving the safety of our community. Peter also has a keen interest in sustainable transport solutions, in particular cycleway initiatives.
Vice President - Mike Mellor
Treasurer - Andy Smith
Andy was a software writer since the early 1970’s and has worked in the Finance, Telemarketing and Data Warehousing industries around the world; getting their computer systems to sit up and beg. He now spends his time in the Not For Profit sector as a volunteer and is completing a Graduate Diploma in NFP Management.
Secretary - Gay Richards
Gay is a librarian managing the Injury Prevention Information Centre based at The Univerisity of Auckland Tamaki Campus She is involved in her local community as chair of a newly incorporated residents' group. Gay uses public transport evey day and promotes the importance of the accessible journey and good walking links to connect communities.
Executive Council Members
Nina Arron
Nina is a freelance copywriter based in Lawrence Otago with strong ties to New York, which she is maintaining as a strategy to escape Otago winters. Her interests include public transport, pedestrian friendly design of public space and appropriate plantings for the greening of urban environments. Walking is her first choice of transport and she climbs trees for fun.
Daphne Bell
Daphne is a second-term Hamilton City councillor and chairs the Community and Environment committee. As a member of the Transport Committee, her focus is Sustainable Transport: walking, cycling and passenger transport. More broadly, she sees enlightened urban planning as critical for the development of a more walkable city - with all the benefits that brings.
Carina Duke
Carina is the Practice Advisor for Adult Orientation and Mobility Instructors with the Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind, and provides Environmental Design advice and training for external agencies. Carina is passionate about designing environments that are accessible for everyone.
Grant Schofield
Grant Schofield is Professor of Public Health at AUT. He is the Director of the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research where he has a strong research and teaching interest in physical activity and health promotion especially urban design, youth, and workplace health.
Rhys Taylor
Rhys Taylor is a city walker, cyclist and bus user, rather than a tramper. He is a self-employed sustainability researcher and adult-educator based in Christchurch and South Canterbury, supporting Living Streets Canterbury on Walk to Work Day, Car Free Day and other events. Contract work includes coordination of Sustainable Living Education Trust, a local government-led community education programme which, among many actions, promotes alternatives to car dependence.