The Christchurch City Council recently provided for resource consent applications to be lodged electronically.
ViaStrada has been utilising this new initiative and is already seeing benefits in terms of prompt consent lodgement and simplified payment of Council fee deposits, plus a reduction of costs associated with the printing and physical lodgement of hard copy consent applications.
Electronic lodgement of resource consent applications will be particularly beneficial for applications approved for processing under the Streamline process - another Council initiative for which ViaStrada is an approved consultant.
For more information on lodging your next resource consent electronically and how ViaStrada can assist, please don't hesitate to contact Jeremy, Andrew or Kathryn on 03 943 0830.
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We have some big news! ViaStrada is being restructured into two separate businesses, effective 1 April 2012. Axel Wilke and Warren Lloyd will manage a traffic engineering and transportation planning business under the familiar ViaStrada banner, continuing to provide high quality and individualised traffic and transport services for clients throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Season's greetings to all our clients, colleagues and peers from the ViaStrada team. We hope you enjoy a relaxing holiday. Our office closed on Friday 23 December and reopened on Wednesday 4 January. The move to our new location hasn't happened yet, as there's some damage to fix first. We'll advise on the new move date through our website, and we'll then be on Level 1, 284 Kilmore Street, Christchurch.
New Zealand's give way rules will change on 25 March 2012. If you work for a local council, are you and your staff ready to respond to queries from councillors or ratepayers as to whether your network will experience any difficulties? To discuss this issue further, please contact 
Our top team's second placing in 2011 in the corporate field for the McLeans Island 6 Hour Blast mountainbike race follows podium places for ViaStrada every year since 2008. All in all, a good day at the office!
Key messages from the conference included that separated bicycle facilities (SBFs) are increasingly recognised as a key way to encourage people to cycle for some of their trips, that speed management (to below 30 km/h) is needed to create a city-wide cycle friendly environment, and that leadership (political and technical) is fundamental to achieving change.
For the third consecutive year, we have enjoyed a "bake-off" competition over the winter months. The competition had its origins in demand outstripping supply at the biscuit tin, but it's grown into something fantastic...
Christchurch was snowed in, and our office was closed on Monday and Tuesday (15 & 16 Aug 2011). The weather has improved, though, and we are all back at work
Subsequent to the recent Christchurch earthquakes, ViaStrada has successfully obtained approval for the relocation of the Cashel Street and Ferrymead Les Mills Fitness Clubs to a new site at 41 Riccarton Road.