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It feels like starting over - The Australian
New Zealand Cycleway News - Wed, 02/22/2012 - 02:06
BBC News
It feels like starting over
The Australian
His is one of 7000 homes, mainly to the east of New Zealand's once second-largest city, "red zoned" or "red ticketed" because they are too badly damaged to live in, or because they lie in residential areas that will be cleared and turned into reserves.
Quake - a year on: City without a heartNew Zealand Herald
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Editorial: Greens can't claim to be equals yet - New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Cycleway News - Tue, 02/21/2012 - 05:29
Editorial: Greens can't claim to be equals yet
New Zealand Herald
With 11 per cent of the vote at the election it has confirmed its place as the third party in New Zealand, the only "minor" party to have consistently cleared the 5 per cent threshold. It has never relied on a single personality or an electorate ...
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Quake - a year on: City without a heart - New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Cycleway News - Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:49
Quake - a year on: City without a heart
New Zealand Herald
By Mike Dickison As New Zealand prepares to mark the first anniversary of the February 22, 2011 Christchurch earthquake, nzherald.co.nz asked local bloggers to describe how their lives have been affected in the year since. We sought a range of voices ...
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Cycleway puts Manawatu on national map - Southland Times
New Zealand Cycleway News - Mon, 02/20/2012 - 08:13
Southland Times
Cycleway puts Manawatu on national map
Southland Times
ON THEIR WAY: Palmerston North Deputy Mayor Jim Jefferies, right, leads a group of cyclists trying out the Manawatu Cycleway, which is linked to the national trail. The Manawatu section goes from Man Manawatu has taken its place among New Zealand's ...
Rimutaka rail bid sidelined - Wairarapa Times-Age
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 02/16/2012 - 15:47
Rimutaka rail bid sidelined
Wairarapa Times-Age
There are plans to link the Rimutaka Rail Trail with the national cycleway, though Mr McCracken said they could co-exist. "This sort of attraction, we believe, is an opportunity that people are looking for along the New Zealand national cycleway, ...
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Manawatu joins New Zealand Cycle Trail - Voxy
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 02/16/2012 - 15:33
Manawatu joins New Zealand Cycle Trail
Voxy
Manawatu joins Nga Haerenga, The New Zealand Cycle Trail this weekend with the opening of a new touring route on The Country Road. The 126-kilometre Manawatu Cycleway weaves its way from Mangaweka to Palmerston North City, providing cyclists with a ...
Garth Bray: Brits in a spin over cycling - TVNZ
New Zealand Cycleway News - Wed, 02/15/2012 - 15:03
Garth Bray: Brits in a spin over cycling
TVNZ
The least of Team GB has had funding for five years, about the same tenure as some of the stars of New Zealand track cycling. The head of sport at the London Olympic organising committee said fair play and a desire for a good shakedown trumped any ...
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Proposed cycleway to connect with Auckland - Dargaville and Districts News
New Zealand Cycleway News - Wed, 02/15/2012 - 09:22
Proposed cycleway to connect with Auckland
Dargaville and Districts News
A proposed Kauri Coast Cycleway would link cyclists from urban Auckland to Pouto, continuing on to Dargaville and up the west coast before either connecting to The New Zealand Cycle Trail at Horeke or continuing further north via Rawene and Kohukohu.
Extension to track commissioned - Otago Daily Times
New Zealand Cycleway News - Sat, 02/11/2012 - 05:37
Otago Daily Times
Extension to track commissioned
Otago Daily Times
The construction contract has been awarded to Dunedin-based company Delta Utility Services, New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) southern regional director Jim Harland said in a statement this week. The work, which would start on Monday, ...
Motu cycle trail opens up Pakihi - Gisborne Herald
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 02/09/2012 - 16:33
Motu cycle trail opens up Pakihi
Gisborne Herald
The cycleway, between Matawai and Opotiki, is one of the 18 trails sanctioned under the $50 million New Zealand Cycle Trail programme, Nga Haerenga. It is administered through a co-operative effort between Gisborne and Opotiki District Councils, ...
Peninsula cycleway still on track - Otago Daily Times
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 02/09/2012 - 08:03
Otago Daily Times
Peninsula cycleway still on track
Otago Daily Times
The decision also meant the project would remain in the running for a New Zealand Transport Agency subsidy covering 66% of the cost, administered through the agency's regional land transport plan (RLTP). The peninsula project remained in the draft RLTP ...
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'A thrill' to see sections near completion - Otago Daily Times
New Zealand Cycleway News - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 05:34
Otago Daily Times
'A thrill' to see sections near completion
Otago Daily Times
By Lynda Van Kempen on Tue, 7 Feb 2012 The Government launched the New Zealand Cycle Trail project in 2009 and provided funding for 18 "Great Rides" around the country. Five were in the lower half of the South Island and three of those - the Alps 2 ...
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Ten projects promoting Auckland's growth - New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Cycleway News - Sat, 02/04/2012 - 05:00
Ten projects promoting Auckland's growth
New Zealand Herald
A new generation and a new attitude to New Zealand's bush, wetlands and other unique ecosystems has seen restoration projects spring up across the region. Some are publicly led and funded, while others have been spearheaded by local residents and ...
MED BIM the sandwich, where's the meat? - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 15:47
MED BIM the sandwich, where's the meat?
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Quoting leading academics the Ministry argues that it is not sufficient, because of New Zealand's small size and isolation, to simply rely on firms to get it right and to lower costs of the 'business environment' if we are to achieve higher rates of ...
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$17.5m for better roads - The Daily Post
New Zealand Cycleway News - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 15:12
$17.5m for better roads
The Daily Post
Work for the year includes the $10 million Lake Rd four-laning project, $525000 for Te Ara o Ahi - Pathway of Fire (national cycleway project), $663000 for the Vaughan Rd pavement upgrade and $180000 for a new roundabout on the corner of Fenton and ...
National mosaic of cycleways - Stuff.co.nz
New Zealand Cycleway News - Mon, 01/30/2012 - 14:28
Stuff.co.nz
National mosaic of cycleways
Stuff.co.nz
New Zealand Cycle Trail programme manager John Dunn said a major section of the Hawke's Bay Trails, including the Ahuriri Estuary, was due to be opened towards the end of February. Then in March it was hoped to have the whole of the Motu Trails open.
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Time to get back on the bike - Otago Daily Times
New Zealand Cycleway News - Sat, 01/28/2012 - 05:42
Otago Daily Times
Time to get back on the bike
Otago Daily Times
Clinical director of South Island neurosurgery Martin MacFarlane was heavily involved in a 1980s campaign to make cycle helmet use compulsory in New Zealand (the law was introduced on January 1, 1994). "It came about originally because of a woman, ...
Wanganui takes centre stage for riders - Wanganui Chronicle
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 01/26/2012 - 09:43
Wanganui takes centre stage for riders
Wanganui Chronicle
By Luis Bergmann and Mark Dawson | Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:40 New Zealand's biggest cycling event hit Wanganui yesterday ... in the shape of race director Peter Yarrell. The man behind April's inaugural Tour of New Zealand was checking the lie of ...
Christchurch is 'innovative and inspiring' - The Press
New Zealand Cycleway News - Thu, 01/26/2012 - 07:54
The Press
Christchurch is 'innovative and inspiring'
The Press
Author Brett Atkinson describes Christchurch as New Zealand's fastest-changing city which is both ''interesting and inspiring''. The new chapter on the city provides information on the Canterbury earthquakes, history of the city, places to eat and what ...
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Transport Agency's behaviour manager wants us to ride our bikes - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Zealand Cycleway News - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 18:17
Transport Agency's behaviour manager wants us to ride our bikes
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
It's inside the monolithic New Zealand Transport Agency. The position made itself known this week in a press release advising us to ride our bikes and leave our cars at home. Not that the Transport Agency has much of a record of building cycleways.