Policy
Draft Government Policy Statement A Backward Step For Everyone Who Walks
A Backward Step For Everyone Who Walks
Oversize vehicles are a menace to pedestrians. What's the best response?
Submitted by timjones on Fri, 12/05/2023 - 12:37With all the damage oversize vehicles, such as SUVs and double-cab utes, cause, should they be banned altogether? That was the provocative question a journalist asked us recently for her article The case to ban SUVs. And the new End Urban SUVs campaign is also focused on this issue.
Call for an Aotearoa New Zealand Walking Strategy
Submitted by ellen.blake on Tue, 05/04/2022 - 13:52Living Streets Aotearoa is calling on the Government to develop a New Zealand Walking Strategy. We are faced with many global and local issues that would be improved if more people walked more often and yet there is no coordinated action to increase walk mode share or maintain the current conditions for pedestrians. Living Streets wants to see Government step up in a coordinated cross-agency way to improve walking and the place of pedestrians in policy, plans and action to benefit society and the places we live. We urgently need a future focused Aotearoa New Zealand Walking Strategy.
HIKOI KI A MĀTAURANGA - WALKING TO SCHOOL
We recommend 24 ways to improve HIKOI KI A MĀTAURANGA - WALKING TO SCHOOL!
Seven walking advocates, activists, practitioners, planners and academics have been working together on the important issue of how New Zealand can reverse the national decline in walking to school. We’ve come up with 24 recommendations that we’ve sent to the Associate Minister of Transport, Ms Julie Anne Genter. We’ve also copied in Ministers of related portfolios such as health, education, sport and recreation.
Government walks the talk in its new GPS
3 April 2018
Government walks the talk in its new GPS
Walking advocacy group Living Streets Aotearoa welcomes the Government’s new transport and funding priorities set out in the Government Policy Statement on Transport.
This Government has heard Living Streets Aotearoa by putting money where everybody’s shoes go. The funding burden for footpath maintenance will now be shared between local and central government under the local roads maintenance class. The walking and cycling activity class has seen a 248% increase which it desperately needed.
Letter to new Transport Ministers
Kia ora Minister
Congratulations on your new role and wishing you every success as we move towards a sustainable climate-friendly future.
Walking has many benefits that will help us on this journey, including:
More walking needed for the Government Policy Statement on Transport
Living Streets Aotearoa submission on the Government Policy Statement on Transport asks for some significant changes to the Policy that determines the funding for the New Zealand land transport system. The proposed GPS continues years of non-funding for walking and pedestrian activity with a heavy bias towards state highway funding. Our submission recommends the focus for the New Zealand transport system must be people-centred to support a healthy life and sustainable activity for all.
Safer speeds and network efficiency in relation to NZTA’s Speed Management Guide
Submitted by andysmith on Fri, 06/01/2017 - 10:28New Zealand’s road toll is too high. On a per capita basis it is double that of the UK, and among the highest in the world - alongside Cambodia, Malaysia, Lithuania and Slovenia.
Value of footpaths in New Zealand survey
Hi all, we are researching the value of footpaths in New Zealand, on behalf of the Road Controlling Authorities' Forum.
This survey is about how people use and value footpaths in New Zealand.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Footpaths
Please circulate the survey as widely as you are able, including to your friends, families, colleagues and any other groups you might be part of.
About Us
Living Streets Aotearoa is the New Zealand organisation for people on foot, promoting walking-friendly communities. We are a nationwide organisation with local branches and affiliates throughout New Zealand.
We want more people walking and enjoying public spaces be they young or old, fast or slow, whether walking, sitting, commuting, shopping, between appointments, or out on the streets for exercise, for leisure or for pleasure.