
Claude Lewenz: Smart roads will get city moving
Forget rego plates and e-bikes - clever street design can save lives and money, writes Claude Lewenz.
Forget rego plates and e-bikes - clever street design can save lives and money, writes Claude Lewenz.
Glenn McIsaac plans to put cameras on his bike or helmet to film footage of dangerous drivers.
Youth group says Auckland plan offers only $8.7m, working out at less than a third of Wellington investment.
My understanding is that vehicles in both feeder lanes must stay in the lane closest to them when turning, writes a reader.
A Northland community is mourning the loss of a family man, teacher and dedicated club volunteer in New Zealand's second cyclist death of the new year.
Symonds St is a nasty place for cyclists. It should have "cyclists not welcome" signs.
Cyclists from an east Auckland school are kitting up for a flying return from the holidays, even though several were bowled over by a car last year.
Patrick Morgan, of the Cycling Advocates' Network (CAN), will be joining us at midday for a live chat on cycle safety.
Three days into this automobile experiment and I'm loving it. I've hit my stride. I'm starting to feel like a real Aucklander, says Martin Johnson.
Auckland bus drivers have been given a taste of road rage from a new perspective yesterday - the handlebars of a fleet of hire bikes.
Cycling in Auckland is more dangerous than cycling in Los Angeles, and Kiwis need to develop more tolerant attitudes to cyclists, triathlete Terenzo Bozzone says.
Cycling to work has gained popularity after a decade of declining, according to the latest census - and cycle advocates say it's time infrastructure changed to match.
Day two at the wheel and I've had my first minor incident - with a pedestrian, not a cyclist, writes Martin Johnston.
It was two seconds of indecision and bad judgment from a driver - but it may have cost a promising young cyclist his career.
We all have a story to tell about the time we were driving, and "Just didn't see him", writes Serafin Dillon.
Fist-shaking cyclists who aggressively shout "open your eyes" to apparently bike-blind drivers are sharing in a problem that also worries motorists.
A bus union leader is leading calls for a bicycle registration scheme to discourage riders from running red lights and pedestrian crossings.
Cycling deaths on Auckland's roads reinforce a need for faster action on critical transport projects, says the city's chamber of commerce.
An official Auckland Transport survey reveals the horrifying number of red-light runners at some of the city's busiest intersections - and most were cyclists.
About 10,000 cyclists a year are stopped and fined by police for biking without a helmet.
Bruce Walton knows the pain of losing someone in a car crash and thinks all road users would behave differently if they had seen first-hand the trauma such accidents caused.
John Tangiia never usually cycled, but in a bid to become fitter so he could do more with his disabled son, he biked to an appointment on Tuesday.
Gruesome images of the mangled bike on which an Auckland man died under a truck will be followed by an advertising campaign designed to "humanise" cyclists.
On Tuesday I arrived very early on the scene of a cycle versus truck fatality in Auckland, writes Lance Wiggs. The sight of a person lying motionless in the street with mangled bicycle in the background is chilling enough.
Police have released the name of the cyclist killed in a collision with a truck at the intersection of Stanley St and Parnell Rise, Auckland yesterday afternoon.
Bystanders were powerless to save a cyclist at one of Auckland's busiest intersections as police reveal the truckie had a green light and was unaware he'd hit the rider.
The number of road deaths over the Christmas-New Year holiday period edged one higher than last year following a motorcyclist death yesterday afternoon.
A family friendly board game, Reach the Beach, has been created by police and the Accident Compensation Corporation to encourage safer journeys on the roads over summer.