Vauban and Rieselfeld, Freiburg: Suburbs for Cycling
During my time in Freiburg, Germany, I paid a visit to two outlying suburbs that have become poster-children for sustainable development. Vauban and Rieselfeld lie to the south and west of central...
View ArticleEnd of Tour: Reflections on Cycling in Europe
So, two months after I actually returned home, we come to the end of the belated reports on my 3-month study tour of Europe. I finished with a couple of days in Frankfurt, Germany, before flying out,...
View ArticleInside the new Bus Interchange – What’s in it for Cycling
While it’s been partially open for a few months now, with the second stage of the new Christchurch Bus Interchange now completed, it seems timely to have a look at it and see how it works for cycling...
View ArticleBike and bus to the airport
In the past week I had to travel to Wellington twice, necessitating early starts to catch the 7.05am “red eye”. My wife needed the car (and that would have still cost $25/day for parking). I didn’t...
View ArticleCycling in Los Angeles
So, as mentioned a couple of weeks back, I recently visited Los Angeles briefly on my return from Washington DC. Instead of the usual rapid stopover at the airport, I took the opportunity for a 24-hour...
View ArticleA postcard from Melbourne
This post is long time coming; too many other distractions since, like Biketober… I was lucky to head across the ditch in September for a couple of week’s holiday in Australia. We started in Melbourne...
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Guest Post: Cycling in Edinburgh
Guest blogger Robert has just returned from some overseas travels. Here is a post about one of his sojourns… Edinburgh is a beautiful city. With a few hills in the central area and a perceived...
View ArticleCycling Central Melbourne
Since the Christchurch earthquakes, the subsequent rebuild, the rearrangement of certain public spaces, and changes to the way people are being encouraged to travel around the city, travelling to other...
View ArticleMemorial/Greers Cycle lane to be Removed
The corner of Memorial Ave and Greers Road is to be made more ‘efficient’. The Orbiter and motorists are inconvenienced by people on bikes and all those kids going to school on foot. The solution?...
View ArticleCommunity Board makes walking and cycling harder
Some may recall that a Council ‘professional traffic planner’ decided the best way to deal with congestion at the corner of Memorial and Greers was to get rid of the cycle lane and narrow the footpath...
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Cycling and Trams
I’ve just finished working my way through Graham Stewart’s wonderful 1993 public tramway book “The End of the Penny Section” (yes, I’m an old public transport tragic from way back…). It tells the...
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Photo of the Day: Rangiora Bike & Ride
There seems to have been a bit of a theme about bike parking in our posts of the past week or so, so let me continue that trend with a good example I came across recently, up in Rangiora. As …
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Flashback Friday: Bikes and buses – starting to think about multimodalism
As you may be aware, the Governments of the world are currently trying to sort out their obligations to tackling climate change at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. So what does that mean for transport?...
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Flashback Friday: Cycling in Bristol
Any time that someone claims their city is too hilly for lots of cycling (and conversely, that’s why everyone bikes in Chch…) I invariably think about all of the hilly cities I have visited around the...
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Flashback Friday: Reflections on a Month in the UK
With all the recent Govt announcements allowing more easy travel in and out of NZ once more, it feels like the world has suddenly opened up again. People are talking about doing the travel they’ve had...
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Flashback Friday: Bikes on Buses
I’m back home again in Christchurch after a long stint away, although ironically I’m heading out of town again this weekend, so back to the airport I go… As mentioned previously, my short jaunts away...
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