SPOKES Dunedin Informal Meeting August 2025

2025-08-11 18:30 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-08-11 21:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

Location

Previous meeting:

To discuss:

1. Questions for candidates - progress

2. Albany Street / University

3. Other business

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Urbanerds - having a drink and talking about urbanism/cities

2025-07-17 18:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-07-17 20:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

Back by popular demand, and with a slightly bigger venue!

Join us for a drink and cool conversations about cities. Whether you’re designing bike lanes, planning public transport, or just passionate about urban spaces or urban development, this is a great opportunity to connect.

We’ve got some interesting people joining us including Skye Duncan, global urban designer but based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Let me know if you’re planning to join us for a drink so we have an idea how many people will show up. Feel free to tag or share this post with anyone who might be interested in joining.

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Snapshot of the key proposed changes

• New Barnes Dance crossing (where all pedestrians cross the road at once) at the SH88 St Andrew Street/SH1 Cumberland Street intersection to help people reach the hospital public entrances safely.

• Remove the westbound right turn from SH88 St Andrew Street onto SH1 Cumberland Street to make space and time for the increased number of pedestrians, including people with mobility needs, to cross the road.

• Two new signalised pedestrian crossings on SH1 outside the Woolworths and the Centre City New World supermarkets.

• Changes to St Andrew Street and other nearby streets to help people driving, walking and cycling, and emergency vehicles, move safely and smoothly around the hospital and surrounding area.

• Left in and left out only turns are proposed to increase safety at the St Andrew/Leith Street and Frederick/Leith Street intersections.

• Move SH88 from St Andrew to Frederick Street.

• Timing - we aim to deliver this work over the next 2–5 years, depending on funding and consents.

The proposed plans for the SH1/SH88 area build on our earlier work in 2023, when the decision was made to keep the existing Dunedin SH1 one-way system. Find out more here:

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Patrick Morgan making the point that the network effect is real.

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Formal Meeting July 2025

2025-07-14 19:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-07-14 20:30 (Pacific/Auckland)

Last gathering

Last formal meeting:

Agenda

See this as well:
https://spokes.nz/t/questions-for-candidates/843

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Workshop for Local Election Egagement @Yours

2025-06-17 18:30 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-06-17 20:30 (Pacific/Auckland)

Hi everyone,

We are excited to announce a workshop for all those interested in engaging with our local counselors standing for the upcoming election. This is a fantastic opportunity to come together and create talking/action points to better understand their views on cycling in Ōtepoti, Dunedin.

Event Details: Date: 17th of June Time: 18.30-20.30 Location: Yours, Moray Place

If you are passionate about cycling and want to make a difference, please join us!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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The Big Bike Film Night - 2nd screening on Monday

2025-05-19 19:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-05-19 21:30 (Pacific/Auckland)

This is the second (Monday night) screening at the Rialto:

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Apologies for the short notice. My name is Patrick Rooney, and I’m part of the national organising group for GLOW. I’ll be in Dunedin from the morning of Friday May 16th until Sunday evening, and was hoping you might have a brief window to meet.

GLOW is an independent, non-partisan candidate incubator. We’re on a mission to encourage a new cohort of local leaders by providing professional development support for diverse, talented community and climate leaders to stand for, and thrive in, this year’s local government elections. Our aim is to be a launchpad for these voices, enabling them to drive climate and community-led action.

Our 12-week incubator program covers how local government works, campaigning tips, and fosters a vital support network for new candidates.

I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to tell you more about our initiative and discuss how your organisation might encourage greater diversity of people and ideas in the upcoming elections.

Would you have any availability for a brief chat, perhaps over a coffee?

Looking forward to the possibility.

Ngā mihi,

Patrick Rooney
for GLOW
www.glowaotearoa.org

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The Big Bike Film Night - 1st screening late Sunday afternoon

2025-05-18 16:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-05-18 18:30 (Pacific/Auckland)

Brett from the Big Bike Film Night here; hey, I wanted to contact you about our upcoming film festival screenings at the Rialto Cinema Dunedin with our 2025 collection of the world’s best short cycling movies.

The collection of bike films is geared to inspire, with a breathtaking array of short cycling films that celebrate the fun, adventure, and inspiration that cycling enables; showcasing 2.5 hours of moving bike films that have everything a cycle-centric audience could want.

ATTENDEE COMMENTS:

• "If you haven’t experienced the cinematic excellence of The Big Bike Film Night - then YOU MUST!!!

• “Anyone into bikes will love these events… they are always brilliant – 11/10!!”

• “Much more than mountain biking films. This was a beautifully curated collection of films each with its own story and while riding bikes was central to most the films were about so much more and would appeal to a much broader group than just keen riders.”

• “This was my first time at a Big Bike Film Night, I’m hooked!”

I hope you can share the details of this event with your community, and I’m sure, like last year, local bike enthusiasts will enjoy this year’s biketastic ‘melting pot’ of cycling inspiration.

If you have time, please watch the trailer link below, to get an understanding of some of the enticing films in this year’s line-up.

The Big Bike Film Night 2025 Promo Trailer

I appreciate the time you have taken to help me with this, and I look forward to hearing from you if there is anything else I can do to help.

Pedal on!!!

B

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SPOKES Meeting 12 May 2025

2025-05-12 19:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-05-12 20:30 (Pacific/Auckland)

Formal SPOKES Dunedin Committee meeting. Other members or interested parties most welcome.

Location

@devoniakruimer’s house.The address is 31 Murray Street in Caversham.

Recent Meetings

Last informal meeting:

Last formal meeting:

Agenda

• Previous meeting actions (April, 25):
  • Sorting out Gmail and Google Drive (Nathan)
  • CAN money and relationships (Fraser)
  • CAN relationship – contacting, and discussing board member access (Devonia/Fraser)
  • Contingency plan for spokes.nz website (Nathan/Rob)
  • Response to Consultation process queries from Steve Walker (David)
• Responses to proposals – how did we go, how can we keep this going?
  • Consultation Process
  • 9-y DCC plan
  • Consultation SH1 changes (Waka Kotahi)
• DCC local elections (Oct 25) – preparing questions/responses for councilors on biking infrastructure.
• Partnerships (beyond CAN?)
• Other items/open discussion
• Actions
• Next meeting

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This is called WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get. It is also what most people are used to in most social media and word processing software.

The markdown is still there - you can reveal it with the little button at the left end of the bar across the composer (this is helpful if you need to do something a bit more fancy):

Please have a go with it and let us know what you think. Maybe as a reply to this post?

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Need an example? Elliot Weir just wrote a great one in his newsletter;

Go here to get your submission in: https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council/annual-and-long-term-plans/9-year-plan-2025-2034/we-want-to-hear-from-you

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Urbanerds

2025-04-16 19:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-04-16 21:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

I’m setting up an urbanerds - basically a catchup at a bar to talk urbanism. Next Wednesday at 7pm at WOOF.

The reason; Stu is coming to town next week. Dr. Stuart Donovan is a Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and has two decades of experience working in Australia and New Zealand in spatial, urban, and transport economics; multi-modal transport planning; and land use policy.

And is keen to meet the urbanist community here in Dunedin. I hope you can join me. Please let me know if you are keen, so we have an idea how many people will show up.

And if you know of any people that are keen to join, please forward this message.
Would be great to see some people from Spokes Dunedin there.

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Time to Shine at Otago Uni - Coffee / Bike meetup arranged by DCC

2025-04-10 07:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-04-10 09:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

Somehow we all managed to miss this:

Would be great if some of us could drop by. It is on the One Way at St David Street - that big open part of the Uni.

Apparently there are giveaways and free bike tune-ups. Mine needs one!

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Pedals to Paradise

2025-04-11 13:00 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-04-11 14:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

Reposting from Otago Business School:
This week’s Business for Good seminar features @LiamHarrison, a bike enthusiast and the founder of Pedals Couriers, an urgent courier service that uses cargo bikes to reduce emissions, beat traffic, and promote the benefits of bikes in urban centres.

Pedals is continuing to grow, now with a team of seven riders and ambitious plans for expansion. Come and hear about the journey to this point and Liam’s vision for the future of urban delivery.

When and where: Friday 11 April, 1-2pm, OBS Room 105 (or via Zoom, details below)

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I am the bikes coordinator for Southern Youth Development (formerly Malcam Trust). We have been beavering away recycling bikes that have been donated to us or dumped at landfill. These bikes have recently been distributed to our community including children, university students, childcare centres. We have established some online forms for the community to get involved. See our poster attached. Get involved by requesting a bike for someone, donate a bike or come and join our awesome volunteer team! Please reach out if you want to find out more…

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QR code to the petition

The wiki topic about this:

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I do wonder if they could have been a little more subtle. For instance, a simple (and reasonably discreet) km marker would do that job as well as give people other useful info while cycling or running.

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There’s no alternate venue or postponement day for bad weather. Cancellation will be a personal call, there will be other coffee dates in the calendar later on. I’ll have an umbrella or two, but probably won’t stay the whole time if it’s miserable. Especially if it looks like the rest of you are staying sensibly at home

See you there ~
~Robyn

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1. Added Events so that all our events can be in one nicely ordered place.
2. Merged and simplified the other Categories
3. Turned off the Chat functionality as they made things quite a bit more complex (we retain Messages which can do the same job)

I haven’t changed the homepage / landing experience yet. @frstep - I know that you’ve got some ideas as to how that can be improved.

Also, @jon.dean - it would be great if we could close down spokesdunedin.wordpress.com somehow. It remains an unhelpful ghost lurking in the background.

Any thoughts / feedback / howls of protest are most welcome!

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SPOKES Informal Meeting April 2025

2025-04-09 18:30 (Pacific/Auckland) → 2025-04-09 20:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

You are most welcome to join us for an informal SPOKEs Dunedin evening meeting to discuss local cycle advocacy and encourage one another.

There is no fixed agenda, but we’ll publish an outcome / notes from it and any decisions made.

Steamer Basin is down the alley off Bond Street; it can also be accessed from Police Street. There is loads of space for bikes to be left out the front. It is open until 8pm, hence a slightly earlier start time. They have pizza available to supplement the excellent beer.

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As you may know, we have been talking about improving Vogel Street to be a low speed/low volume shared street that can function as a primary cycling route, connecting the City Centre to the South.

The project has been identified through the draft Otepoti Dunedin Pathways project as a high priority and we are currently in the process of engaging ViaStrada to help us advance the planning.

The desired outputs are concept options for Vogel St and a network plan that outlines how the southern part of the central city will function as a whole, considering the SH1 improvements project and Princes St projects. This will then feed into current projects and we will aim for funding through the DCC 9 Year Plan (2025-34).

It would be great to have you involved in the project early on. To enable this, we would like to invite you to two workshops:

1. Clean sheet information gathering workshop (in person)

• Monday 14 April from 2pm
• Tuesday 15 April from 11am
• Thursday 17 April from 1pm

2. Draft options workshop (online workshop, 4 weeks after the first workshop)

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I will be commenting on bikes on busses as well as the all important lack of any improvement in the Dunedin City to Dunedin Airport public transport link. Any other city in NZ - Auckland, Wellington, Chch., Queenstown - its a piece of cake to get to/from airport by bus and I have done so many times. Why does it take 2 hours to get a shuttle from Dunedin Airport to home and cost about $30. Dunedin is really hurting itself by not having better public transport to/from the airport. Not to mention a bike path. Victoria BC has a lovely bike path, and bike lockers and even bike tools and pumps etc so you can get to and from the airport with your bike and take your bike on your bike vacation to somewhere warm. Dunedin has no safe biking route thru the taieri (from the Wingatui Tunnel) to the Airport. Wellington has the nice Rongatai bike tunnel to the airport (actually under the runway) But I digress the bike to airport is another topic…

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