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Advocacy and Cycling New Zealand Wayne Hudson, President CNZ

Advocacy and Cycling New Zealand Wayne Hudson, President CNZ Stephen Knight, Advocacy Manager BikeNZ. Advocacy Role. Primarily to address day-to-day (utility) cycling In addition, support for recreational cycling. Event Management.

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Advocacy and Cycling New Zealand Wayne Hudson, President CNZ

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  1. Advocacy and Cycling New Zealand Wayne Hudson, President CNZ Stephen Knight, Advocacy Manager BikeNZ

  2. Advocacy Role • Primarily to address day-to-day (utility) cycling • In addition, support for recreational cycling

  3. Event Management • Following the Astrid Andersen case, SK supporting WH in his contribution to SPARC’s National Sports and Recreation Event Organisers Advisory Group This group addresses: • the real as opposed to perceived risks of running events • the growing concerns over restrictive requirements for running events e.g. temporary traffic management

  4. Astrid Andersen On appeal • Astrid’s conviction overturned because the prosecution had not proved that Astrid “knew” that failure to make her instructions clearer would have resulted in the death or injury of a member of the public. In addition: • The standard of care in criminal nuisance has been raised from one of mere negligence to recklessness, which should provide greater comfort for event organisers. • This substantially reduces the likelihood of the police, victims and their families trying to extract compensation through the criminal process.

  5. Transit NZ CoP TTM • Cycling New Zealand and a number of clubs and centres recently made submissions to the RCA Forum on the Local Roads Supplement to Transit New Zealand’s Code of Practice on Temporary Traffic Management. In addition, following CNZ and other event organiser lobbying, SPARC noted to the RCA Forum: • the current system was inconsistent, arduous and unnecessarily complex; • currently there is no uniformity across the country with some RCAs using compliance to TNZ COPTTM as a condition of approving use local roads for sport and recreation events.

  6. Consequently • the RCA Forum has accepted the need to cater for event management on roads • there seems sympathy to the view that the TTM approaches should be moulded by the industry involved (road repairs, bus breakdown, landscaping, sport events) and by the nature of the road (wide or narrow; straight or winding; speed limits; etc). Hence the logical approach is to produce one TTM for public roads • a new draft RCA Supplement is due out about now for comment • Transit NZ will also have its own Supplement to the Code for Sports and Other Events.  According to Transit New Zealand, both Supplements will eventually be combined, although this can realistically only occur if there is no conflict between the two.

  7. Central Government Lobbying • Parallel to the above, the Ministers of Sports and Recreation and Transit have been asked to meet with the Event Management Advisory Group to discuss the wider issue of risk aversion and the decline in grass-roots events, of which the CoPTTM is a symptom.

  8. Guidelines for Risk Management in Sport and Recreation • Standards New Zealand: “Guidelines for Risk Management in Sport and Recreation” • Intended to assist voluntary organisations to manage risks in their organisations and in relation to the events they run • The Guide is supposed to be practical but if implemented would require a dedicated risk management officer. SPARC is aware of this and has engaged Dr Pip Lynch and Wayne Hudson to prepare a simpler Risk Management Supplement for Event Organisers • Once completed, SPARC will conduct a number of training sessions and workshops around the country.

  9. NZ Walking and Cycling Strategy Released February 2005 • Accompanied by a $1.15 million funding package, including $690,000 for Bike Wise • Provides guide for regional and local strategies • The 2005 New Zealand Cycling Conference will contribute to implementation of strategy

  10. Bike Wise Funding Boost With Beverley Chamberlain, will work with Health Sponsorship Council to: • Complete stocktake of school-age cycle skills training programmes • Contribute to the drawing up of standards for programmes • Scope out national delivery of cycle skills education programmes

  11. Cycling Toolbox Workshops • Holding workshops throughout NZ • Aimed primarily at advocates dealing with councils • Covers legal, funding and lobbying issues • Provides an overview of legislative and regulatory changes over the past four years

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