{"id":4782,"date":"2014-09-30T21:49:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2014-10-23T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:24:33","slug":"nz-cycling-safety-panel-draft-report-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=4782","title":{"rendered":"NZ Cycling Safety Panel Draft Report is Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>NZ Cycle Safety Panel -Draft Report for Consultation<\/b><br \/>\nThe New Zealand Transport Agency have convened a high-level panel of experts, chaired by Richard Legget of Bike NZ and NZ Post, who have in September 2014 released their <a title=\"NZTA Cycling Safety Panel page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzta.govt.nz\/consultation\/cycling-safety-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\">draft report on cycle safety<\/a>. Here are a few thoughts which I am submitting to them for consideration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2399\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SafetyPanelSubmission.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2399 \" alt=\"Screen Grab from Road Safety Authority 'Share the Road' Ad, 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/RSAscreenGrab.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/RSAscreenGrab.png 701w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/RSAscreenGrab-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on image for PDF version (0.08 Mb)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><b>Key points<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Significant increases in cycling and walking -as distinct from safe cycling among existing cyclists- is extremely urgent for Kiwis&#8217; health.<\/li>\n<li>The Report is highly commendable in its thinking and recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t have the mandate to recommend all the necessary promotional measures -legal, educational, infrastructural, etc.- to get more Kiwis on bikes.<\/li>\n<li>Its most useful recommendation is that high-level leadership is needed -but that should be for the promotion of increased cycling generally, not just for safety of existing cyclists.<\/li>\n<li>A higher-level body than the NZTA should be responsible for this promotion, ideally an inter-departmental body, implementing a considered and detailed national policy with adequate funding and realistic timelines.<\/li>\n<li>The detailed recommendations of the Report relating to road safety are generally excellent.\u00a0 Legislation for safe overtaking clearances and lower speed limits would be very welcome for New Zealand cyclists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SafetyPanelSubmission.pdf\" title=\"PDF version of Submission to NZTA Safety Panel\" target=\"_blank\">see the PDF<\/a> for the full submission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Cycle Safety Panel -Draft Report for Consultation The New Zealand Transport Agency have convened a high-level panel of experts, chaired by Richard Legget of Bike NZ and NZ Post, who have in September 2014 released their draft report on cycle safety. Here are a few thoughts which I am submitting to them for consideration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,22,5,18,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}