500 Fundamentals Course attendees

The 'Fundamentals of Planning and Design for Cycling' has reached a huge milestone. Over 500 individuals have now attended one of the courses. That's a great success for such a small country as NZ.

The first course was presented in June 2003. Unsurprisingly, the first year saw the biggest annual attendance, as the graphic below shows. But 2007 was a bumper year too, with 133 traffic engineers, planners, health professionals and cycling advocates attending the course. Nine courses were held in Auckland, Greymouth, Napier, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin. Courses are routinely included in traffic engineering / transport planning Masters courses at Auckland and Canterbury universities and as an optional extra to the New Zealand Cycling Conference held every two years.

Find out more about this and consider enrolling for a 2008 course. It might be the most useful "continuing professional development" you do this year!