** STOP PRESS - CNG WORK RECEIVES HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD **
Finalists were recently announced for New Zealand's 2017 Bike to the Future awards, and ViaStrada are excited to feature on the list! We worked with Abley Transportation Consultants on the Cycling Network Guidance project, which is a finalist for the Innovation Hub Award. The winners will be announced at the Asia-Pacific Cycle Congress awards dinner in Christchurch on 19 October.
It's been two years since speed limits got dropped from 50 to 30 km/h in parts of the CBD. Have crashes dropped as predicted? Yes, in line with European cities' experience (they did the same; just two or three decades earlier).
Five Bike to the Future awards were given out at the awards ceremony held in conjunction with the 2WALKandCYCLE Conference, plus a supreme award. Here’s how ViaStrada was involved. Not too shabby, we might say!
Our team spent the day planting native trees on Quail Island / Ōtamahua. The trust looking after the island has been at it for 20 years and the progress is stunning. We thoroughly enjoyed lending a few hands and adding to the collective effort.
Three of us will be presenting at the upcoming 2WALKandCYCLE Conference in Palmerston North: John (two presentations), Glen (one presentation) and Axel (one presentation). There are written papers in support of two of those presentations. See you in Palmerston North!
ViaStrada is proud to be nominated in two categories in this year's Bike to the Future Awards, as well as being involved in two other nominations. The winners will be announced at the 2WALKandCYCLE Conference in Palmerston North at the end of July.
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ViaStrada has been commissioned to help Christchurch City Council with two surveys relating to cycling; one regarding the current trial of directional cycle traffic signals, and the other regarding cycling crashes on tram tracks.