The state of support for cycling infrastructure

Dunedin and New Zealand

Originally published in January 2021.

Yes it's been a few months since my last blog post, I've been away in Melbourne.

Anyway to change tack a little here's a response I made on a cycling infrastructure course that I'm doing about the state of local politics and its impact on cycling infrastructure in Dunedin (which is almost identical to Melbourne's btw).

In Dunedin NZ we have a pretty myopic Council despite supposedly being led by a Green Mayor (in actual fact he represents the establishment). Here's an article that includes several photos which make it very obvious what the main problem is and its concentration on roads shows why there's currently no sign of it improving;

Build the roads and the cars will come

The only part of that 100m+ slated for improvements to roads (because of the new hospital build) for cycling is 2.5m …