Planning & policy

The Dunedin Central City Bike Hubs project is one of seven Dunedin City Council (DCC) projects from the “Shaping Future Dunedin Transport” Programme Business Case (PBC). ViaStrada worked with WSP to complete a Single-Stage Business Case (lite) to determine secure bicycle and micro-mobility parking needs and end-of-trip provision requirements and locations within the central city of Dunedin. 

ViaStrada provided professional advice to council staff to help prepare them for discussion with elected members regarding the Albany Street cycleway through the tertiary precinct. 

The report addressed council’s key questions: 

Is Albany Street likely to remain the preferred route for a dedicated cycleway? 

In March 2016, Christchurch City introduced a 30 km/h zone within part of the central city.

ViaStrada assisted the Far North District Council in their component of Northland Transport Alliances’ wider application for the Climate Emergency Response Fund (CERF). Using criteria and weightings, projects were ranked by how well they achieve the four CERF objectives:
1.    Is the project part of an urban cycle network?
2.    Does the project improve urban neighbourhood walkability?
3.    Does the project support safer travel to school?
4.    Does the project make public transport more reliable and easier to use?

ViaStrada was commissioned by Taupō District Council (TDC) to prepare a Speed Management Plan for their district. The Plan is based on the new Waka Kotahi (NZ Transport Agency) speed management policy and guidance, which reflects a more holistic approach to setting speed limits based on matters of road safety, community concern, and support for active modes. 

ViaStrada worked with the Client and key stakeholders to update the ten-year old active transport and recreation strategy. Preliminary tasks included an extensive network audit using ArcGIS Data Collector and the preparation of an online StoryMap for planning and public information, online surveys, and in-person public engagement at a range of events. ViaStrada prepared large posters with the findings for public meetings and collated "share an idea" cards. The draft strategy was a concise and graphics-rich document that was lauded by staff and councillors.

Auckland Transport commissioned ViaStrada to conduct an independent review of the Mission Bay & St Heliers speed management proposals.

ViaStrada was commissioned by Environment Canterbury (ECan), on behalf of the Regional Road Safety Working Group (RRSWG), to undertake the following tasks:

Most of the time, we have a client who pays the bills. Sometimes, we work for the love of it to give back to the community. Biketober in 2017 was an example of the latter.  Helen and Glen were heavily involved in organising the affairs, which our staff doing much of the event management, and Helen in particular looked after the marketing components.

At the 2WALKandCYCLE Conference in 2018, Biketober Christchurch 2017 was the category winner in the Revolutionary Award for the best activity.

Dunedin City Council commissioned ViaStrada to develop an area-wide approach to addressing road safety issues around the five central city schools. By considering the whole study area as one (i.e. the “Central Schools Cluster”), a series of consistent treatments can be used to reinforce to all users entering the area (especially motorists) that they need to look out for other users (especially school pupils) and behave appropriately.