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We were delighted to be recognised along with our project partners as one of seven category winners out of 20 finalists at the  Living Streets Aotearoa 2024 Golden Foot Awards. 

In June 2024 we farewelled Nick Reid as he took up an opportunity with Christchurch City Council. Nick joined us straight out of university and grew rapidly into the role. He was a key contributor to our Waka Kotahi research, New Plymouth street design, Dunedin and Whangārei business cases, Far North trails plan, and Far North pedestrian investment plan. Nick will now bring his passion to help make people’s lives better and healthier through good transportation design and infrastructure locally in Christchurch.

ViaStrada team members Axel Downard-Wilke, John Lieswyn and Pim van den Top attended the 
Transportation Group 2024 Conference in Nelson 10–12 June 2024.

We hobnobbed with political leaders of every persuasion, bridging divides and working to become 
“Better Ancestors”.

A common road safety challenge in NZ is around level railway crossings. In the past five years, KiwiRail incident data reported typically 15-25 collisions a year between trains and motor vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists (many of them fatal) as well as hundreds of near misses. Therefore, safe design of level crossings is crucial to reducing these statistics.