You’ll Kick Yourself if You Miss this!
This is the final boarding call for Cycle Action’s AGM THIS Thursday night! Yes, tonight! We’d love you to come. Not because we need more scalps – as we’re in the lucky position of having only one...
View ArticleSurvey – how do you like the Tamaki Drive cycling works?
More is still to come in future months and years, but most of the recent works on Tamaki Drive are finished, except for some tidying up. Cycle Action Auckland has been out on site reviewing the works –...
View ArticleIn Praise of Media People Who Cycle
I have been the media spokesperson for Cycle Action Auckland since October 2009, when I became Chair of Cycle Action Auckland. I frequently marvel at the major shift in media attitudes to cycling...
View ArticleListing the (almost) unlistable
Every year, Cycle Action’s committee members, associates and friends put in many thousands of hours of volunteer work. Every year, we make an effort to capture at least a good cross-section of the work...
View ArticleCycle Summit Videos – The Very Last One(s)!
Okay – we know we said we’d be done with speaker videos from the Cycle Summit! Well, that is technically true, yet… there’s… still more… videos… – namely a series of “after event” interviews where we...
View ArticleAn Invitation To Our Readers
We invite you, our readers, to join us for good company, Christmas drinks and nibbles When – 6-8pm Thursday, 29 November Where – Ellen Melville Hall, Freyberg Square In the spirit of Christmas, the...
View ArticleGreat party & powerful cause in Bikes for Refugees!
From Cycle Action Chair, Barb Cuthbert Lovely seeing everyone who got to our party on Thursday night. The buzz in the room was tremendous and the food and drink seemed to go down a treat! My only...
View ArticleBikes, beaches, barbeques… best wishes to you!
We’re packing in the blog for a couple of weeks so we can take off for the beach and countryside for the great Kiwi summer holiday! We end the year with a feeling of huge satisfaction – it has been a...
View ArticleSweating the small islands – I mean… sweating the small stuff: Waiheke
I hadn’t been to Waiheke for a year – but CAA organises our annual ‘hui’ on Waiheke, in the hospitable home of our chair, Barbara Cuthbert. Half a weekend celebrating the past year, planning for the...
View ArticleWelcome to our team, Jane
Cycle Action is constantly attracting new members and Associates who are as passionate about improving Auckland for cycling as we are. We’re grateful for all offers of help – either for a one-off...
View ArticleCollecting data on you all…
…but unlike the American’s NSA, we and Auckland Transport do it all with your consent. A good chunk of our core readers (60 of you) participated in a recent Auckland-wide Auckland Transport survey...
View ArticleCycle Action – Our new vision statement!
Over the last months, CAA has been doing a lot of back-room work to define CAA’s vision for cycling in Auckland. With the approaching local body election and increasing public exposure, we want to be...
View ArticlePower to the People – dealing to Auckland’s congestion [CAA Event]
From Barbara Cuthbert, CAA Chair What does it tell us when we hear that many thousands of people went on-line to read the Auckland Transport Blog item on the Congestion Free Network (CFN) last week?...
View ArticleMore roads! And more cycleways? [CAA Event]
Just reminding everyone that this Thursday, CAA’s public meeting will get presentations from Auckland Transport on two major projects: East-West Link – Connecting South Central Auckland with East...
View ArticleSelf-absorbed navel-gazing
Well, it looks like we are on the right track – over the last 12 months, this blog has strongly grown in readership. Exactly speaking, in the 12 months ending in July 2013, we had 44,342 visits, a 135%...
View ArticleAnother year… Notice of AGM
. CAA’s 2013 AGM Wednesday 25 September Ellen Melville Hall, Freyberg Square 6:00 PM – AGM 7:00 PM – Guest speaker, Greg Wood: Lessons from NYC Another year has flown by and cycling numbers continue...
View ArticleSneak preview: Congestion Free Network – The Cycle Module
Hello everyone. In cooperation with Auckland Transport Blog and Generation Zero, CAA has spent the last few weeks developing the “Cycle Module” for the Congestion Free Network. This will lay out a...
View ArticlePaul Steely White – New York coming our way!
Paul Steely White (left) with Greg Wood (right). Come along to the CAA AGM to hear our Greg talk about the cycling environment he saw in New York – and then a few weeks later, join us when Paul will...
View ArticleNew York – If you can make it here…
Blog by Greg Wood New York was once called New Amsterdam – and given just how much bicycle infrastructure they’ve implemented recently, it might well be on its way to reclaiming that title. I went to...
View ArticleTen years ago on CAA
Having, a while ago, rediscovered the online presence of CAA in its early days, we thought we would occasionally look back and see what happened 10 years ago… A few selected bits and pieces from CAA’s...
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