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Don't slip up: Design, maintenance and pedestrian accidents

August 30, 2010 by Jenny-Kaye Potaka
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Best practice walking environments require a safe walking space. Poor design and low maintenance of walking surfaces and roadside furniture can reduce safety, walking ambience, and cause inefficient walking speeds. In New Zealand around 700 pedestrians are admitted to hospital each year due to slips, trips and stumbles in the road environment, with many more unreported accidents, yet little is known regarding the specific physical characteristics that foster pedestrian accidents.

Presenter: 
Jared Thomas
Session or Keynote: 
Infrastructure
Organisation or Business: 
Opus Central Laboratories
Session slot: 
Mon a.m. late

Successful self-explaining roads project in NZ; but what is next?

August 30, 2010 by Jenny-Kaye Potaka
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This paper describes the main findings of the Auckland Self-Explaining Roads (SER) project and outlines some actions and recommendations for advancing the SER concept in New Zealand.

Presenter: 
Hamish Mackie
Session or Keynote: 
Behaviour
Organisation or Business: 
TERNZ Ltd
Session slot: 
Tue p.m. early

Benefits of new and improved pedestrian facilities: case studies

August 24, 2010 by Jenny-Kaye Potaka
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In seeking to optimise the use of existing infrastructure and develop more vibrant shopping centres by creating places/spaces that people want to visit, many Councils are seeking to reallocate road space.

Presenter: 
Tracy Allatt
Session or Keynote: 
Infrastructure
Organisation or Business: 
Beca Infrastructure Ltd
Session slot: 
Mon a.m. late

A Statistical Accident

August 24, 2010 by Jenny-Kaye Potaka
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The New Zealand Agency (NZTA) investigated the relationship, if any, between school travel plans and improved road safety, in particular for pedestrians and cyclists.  

Using crash data within a 500 m radius around eleven schools in Auckland City over a 10 year period, this assessment indicates that the following decrease in reported crashes occurred since the launch of the travel plans:

_ 57% involving cyclists and pedestrians aged five to thirteen
_ 30% involving all pedestrian and cycling
_ 4% all crashes.

Presenter: 
Coralie O'Brian
Session or Keynote: 
School Initiatives
Organisation or Business: 
NZ Transport Agency
Session slot: 
Mon a.m. late

Presentation about New York and the 2009 Walk21 conference

August 24, 2010 by Jenny-Kaye Potaka
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The 2009 Walk21 conference in New York was an opportunity to see at first hand the pedestrian revolution taking place around Times Square and other areas of Manhattan.
The main driver for New York’s plan was not pedestrian congestion, but road safety. In 1990 there was one pedestrian death every day on the cities streets.  This has been reduced to the lowest figures since records began in 1910, with senior fatalities on the pavements dropping 43% in just one year, due to the ‘streets for seniors’ plan.

Presenter: 
Robyn Davies
Session or Keynote: 
Plenary
Organisation or Business: 
Transport and Main Roads Queensland
Session slot: 
Mon p.m. late

How can a Council encourage walking? The Glen Eira experience

August 24, 2010 by Jenny-Kaye Potaka
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The City of Glen Eira is located in Melbourne's south-east suburbs, about 7 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD.
It encompasses a total land area of about 38 square kilometres and is an established residential area that is continuing to attract housing development.

Presenter: 
Matthew Harridge
Session or Keynote: 
Urban Design
Organisation or Business: 
O'Brien Traffic
Session slot: 
Mon p.m. early

Land Transport Rule: Traffic Control Devices Amendment

June 10, 2010 by cindy.carmichael
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Submission completed May 19th with 4 minutes to spare! As submission was done online no direct way to save and due to short time frame could not save a copy in word. Notes were taken during preparation of submission and can be obtained from Cindy at : livingstreets.canterbury@gmail.com

Safer Journeys strategy launched

March 4, 2010 by liz thomas
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Transport Minister Steven Joyce has launched the Safer Journeys strategy.

Living Streets issued a media release supporting the main thrust of the strategy, but expressing disappointment that the issue of slower speeds is not being addressed right away.

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.”

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

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