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Kathryn Stapleton started in the Christchurch office of ViaStrada as a Senior Planner on 6 October. Welcome to the team!

Kathryn has spent the past 22 months working as a Senior Planning Officer in Kent (UK). Prior to that she spent 4 years as a Resource Consents Planner for Christchurch City Council, specialising in residential and industrial urban growth applications. Kathryn is a member of the London Branch of the NZ Planning Institute and holds a Bachelors Degree and Post Graduate Diploma in Resource Studies.

ViaStrada is reviewing the Tennyson St cycle path facility in Christchurch, some 7 years after it was constructed.

In 2001, the Christchurch City Council reconstructed Tennyson Street between Colombo Street and the Heathcote River in Beckenham, including a new kind of cycling facility. The design uses off-road cycle paths between the footpath and the kerb, with a narrower roadway than previously for motor vehicles. Some people love it; some hate it!

At the recent Trafinz Conference in Christchurch (8-10 September 2008) ViaStrada presented the preliminary results of an inductive loop continuous cycle counting trial undertaken for the New Zealand Transport Agency.

The presentation can be viewed as a PDF file.

The trial concluded that inductive loops have the capability to count bicycles on a continuous basis. The full trial report will be published in October.

ViaStrada has just completed a major discussion document for the New Zealand Transport Agency.