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The regular meeting time is the 4th Monday in the month at 6.00pm at the Wellington City Council Offices, 101 Wakefield Street. All are open to the public. (Press button to left of doors if doors are locked - should be unlocked to 6.15, go right once you get inside, find the room number on the video screen).
Our Living Streets Wellington discussion at 6pm on Monday 25th August is all about making Wellington's downtown and suburbs better for walking, Meet staff from Wellington City Council and have your say! Come along to Committee Room 1 at Council offices, 101 Wakefield St.
"The purpose of this Walking Policy is to provide a framework for initiatives to collaboratively improve the pedestrian walking environment in Wellington. With the primary focus of promoting walking trips that would otherwise be taken by car, this Policy seeks to improve the walking environment and increase the number of short trips made by people to work or study, either as a single journey, or as part of a journey. The policy also seeks to increase walking activity in suburban centres by encouraging people to walk to their local services rather than taking the car."
Actions include safer crossing points, better signage, concentration on walking to the CBD for households within 25 minutes' walk.
Are the actions the right ones, should they happen sooner? Are we including runners, the elderly, people who are frail and need better footpath surfaces?
Also, do we want to share recreational tracks with cyclists or horse riders - some tracks, none or all?
Details of the drafts of WCC Walking Plan, Cycling Plan and Recreational Tracks Plan will be at http://www.wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/publicinput from 23rd August.
Cycle Aware Wellington is also planning meetings to discuss the Cycling Plan.
FUTURE LIVING STREETS WELLINGTON DATES - in your diary, please!!
Sept 22nd - car free day - we'll have a walking meeting!
OCTOBER - on the 11th, there will be a Saturday afternoon workshop on the Great
Harbour Way route. We will also elect a Wellington committee to lead local
action! Note no meeting on Labour Day.
See also events page.
Walk2Work day
It's now after Walk2Work Day but don't let that stop you walking2work.
Here are the two winning entries from our walk2work competition
See here for some of Wellington's walk2workers
Also see http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00344.htm
For more information: phone Carol Comber on 027 205 4554, email carol.comber at livingstreets.org.nz
Also see events page.
Sustainable Wellington Transport form submission on Ngauranga to Airport policy
Sustainable Wellington Transport has prepared a form letter that you can send to the Greater Wellington Council. Click here for a MS Word version (422K) or a PDF version (49K).
Submissions close on 28th July, so send it in by then. For more details see http://gw.govt.nz/section1147.cfm.
Feeling Great survey
The Council (Recreation Wellington) is doing a 5 minute outdoor survey to find out what people in Wellington want to do in the outdoors. Fill it out at
http://www.feelinggreat.co.nz/outdoor-programmes-and-events-survey
They don't give a deadline, so fill it out soon, before it goes away.
The Peace Foundation has designed two walks linking peace monuments, sculptures, trees and historic sites dedicated to peace, tolerance and understanding in the Wellington Botanical Gardens and Central Business District. The walks are designed to be self-guided. However, we are considering the possibility of providing guided walks, either on special peace days or on an ongoing basis. The walks can be seen online at http://www.peace.net.nz/index.php?pageID=62#pwalk or a draft brochure can be obtained from our office: The Peace Foundation Wellington Office; PO Box 24-429, Manners Street; Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand 6142
Tuesday lunchtime civic walkers
See also Wellington walking groups
Walk Wellington, which provides guided walking tours around Wellington, is a not-for-profit operation under the Living Streets Aotearoa umbrella. For more information about Walk Wellington visit their website www.walk.wellington.net.nz. We need volunteer guides - click here for more details.
For minutes of earlier meetings please go here
(See LSA site for LSA minutes)
See also documents page and articles, papers, etc.
25 August 2003: Paul Barker (WCC) on the area based safety project. See also http://www.wcc.govt.nz/news/projects/saferroads/.
25 August 2003: Matt Grant (LTSA) on the pedestrian and cyclist safety framework. Jane Mitchell (LTSA) on the safe routes project.
23 June 2003: Brent Efford on Are all those signals necessary on Wellington's Golden Mile? (pdf file 1 megabyte long - will take several minutes to download on a phone line).
(See also documents page)
(see LSA site for newsletters)
(See also the NZ maps links page)
See also the Wellington submissions on the LSA document page
(See LSA site for LSA submissions)
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