This is a guest post from our friends in the cycling community
I wanted to let you know about CAN Do 2013: Inspiring Change, an exciting conference coming up in Auckland on the 13th and 14th of April.
CANDo is a national summit for cycling advocates which is held in a different location each year.
Because it hasn’t been held in Auckland for some time I personally have never been to it. But I’ve heard great things about it from those who have attended!
The key details for the event this year are:
When: Saturday 13, Sunday 14 April.
Where: Ellen Melville Pioneer Hall, corner of High Street and Freyburg place, Auckland CBD
Cost: The registration is $60 for one day or $100 for two days, including meals.
Who: The Cycling Advocacy Network, the umbrella group for cycling activists in NZ.
They have lined up some great speakers for the Saturday including:
- Jonathan Daly: Transport behaviour-change expert from GHD Melbourne: “The politics of cooperation in the age of sharing: A new paradigm for bicycle advocacy”
- Stephen Town: Regional Director Auckland/Northland for the New Zealand Transport Agency: “Collaboration & partnership in action”
- Rod Oram, Issues Analyst: “The problem is … the solution is….”
- Camden Howitt from Sustainable Coastlines: “How do we get the NZ cyclist voice heard? Popularising the cause”
- Gerry Dance: Model Communities:“New models, new learnings”
- Phil Shoemack: Medical Health Officer, Bay of Plenty: “The health factor”
- John Mauro: Director of Policy, Cascade Bicycle Club: “Going Online”
- 90 Seconds TV: Social media and interview practice
If you are involved in cycling advocacy, either as an individual or part of a group then this is definitely a must-attend event!
If you are a public transport advocate then you might also find it useful to attend because a lot of the topics, such as, how to use social media or communicate issues effectively to the
general public, are applicable to both our work.
This is a great chance to skill share, network, and talk about how public transport and cycling advocates can work more effectively together to achieve change.
To see the whole programme or find out more check out CAN Do 2013 on CAN’s website.
To register download a form here.
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Interesting to see this story about the separated cycleways plan in Christchurch just announced:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/8508885/Copenhagen-style-separate-cycleways-planned
Seems they are going to put in “Copengagen style” separate bike paths, and have “Dutch-style” corners to isolate cyclists from turning cars.
Sounds forward thinking – makes me want to think about moving (back) there now…
AT are you watching and learning how to do it right?
AT? Only if it’s attached to a road upgrade.
That is so cool.
If it starts in ChCh and it works (which it will) this will greatly increase the change of rolling it out to other cities in NZ.
Hesitantly* coming to AT’s defense, I know of several projects in Auckland that are planned to get Copenhagen-style (or generally “protected” from cars) cycle facilities, such as Albany Highway. And the Christchurch upgrade is arguably also attached to a non-cycling project (i.e. the earthquake rebuild).
*Hesitantly because none of these projects has moved into the construction phase yet, and I am grumpy about the lack of speed for change!
And it is frustrating as looking at that vast spending plan it is very hard not to conclude that the biggest transformational bang-for-buck is the citywide cycle plan for some 700million. So why not hurl ourselves into that with élan and urgency and see what can be achieved in a couple of years…?
Some days, I wonder whether the biggest issue for cycling is in fact money, though – I certainly see as many cycle projects get munted in terms of quality or outright cancelled due to unwillingness to remove on-street parking than due to cost…