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An interview with Dr Eva Neely a senior lecturer at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Eva talks about her research on Parent-Centred Urbanism

Femke Meinderts, co-leader of the group Parents for Active Transport Atawhai, writes about how her community organised to keep a safer speed limit on their stretch of SH1.

Parking on and over footpaths is inconsiderate and illegal. This year Living Streets is upping its efforts to decrease the incidence of motor vehicles being parked on footpaths–something that happens far too frequently. Our campaign to address footpath parking has three main strands.

Recently, NZTA consulted the public on proposals to raise speed limits on various stretches of state highways around the country. On 16 of those stretches which are classified as urban connectors they are continuing the consultation until 14th of May on whether they should keep the speed limit lower, at the level it is now.

The final Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2024 has now been released.

It’s time to write submissions for our local government long term plans  to get the changes we deserve for the places where we live. 

All the good things we want need to be in these 10-year budgets, either as stand-alone items for big projects or in a funding bucket that will cover the smaller projects. 

Pedestrian projects are often high-value yet low-cost items that get rolled together in transport projects with anodyne names like ‘renewals’, ‘upgrades’, ‘improvements’, ‘operations’ and ‘maintenance’.

Speed kills, and in particular, speed kills pedestrians. Reducing urban road speeds from 50 to 30 km/h hugely improves pedestrian survival rates in accidents.

Early on the morning of Walk to Work Day, 8 March, the Wellington branch of Living Street Aotearoa staffed a stand on Wellington waterfront and asked passers-by about walking to work.