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Got a beef about biking? Tell someone who cares!

Cycling is a great way to get around. It is a healthy, active form of exercise, costs nothing and means that you dont get stuck in traffic It is for exactly these reasons that we are working to make Auckland City a place where it is safe and easy to get around by bike.

In order to achieve this, Auckland City has a cycling and walking strategy, which aims to develop cycleway and walkway routes across the city and encourage their use. An overview of the 1998 strategy is online along with the 2007 draft walking and cycling framework.

Bikes and cycleways

According to the Herald this morning our leaders are considering an additional tax on petrol…

Motorists face paying more for petrol through regional fuel taxes, levied to pay for local transport projects including the electrification of Auckland’s suburban trains.

For more roads? Are they insane? What about climate change? What about peak oil? I say whack another dollar on per litre and use it for upgrading the trains and busses - not for encouraging our crazy addiction to cars.