Niki organised this meeting to look at the RDC cycling strategy as it is now due for review. Attendance was 45 people, compared to three years ago when only six people attended. There were many types of cyclists: the serious bike to work each day cyclists through to the inner city cyclists who like the slower pace mixing some exercise in their pursuit of good coffee. Of course there was a mountain biker on crutches with a knee injury!
Of equal importance is the interest of our engineering staff listening to the community. Andy Bell (Group Manager Infrastructure Services) , Peter Dine (Works Manager and Mark Buckley (Senior Planner Hydrus Engineering Consultants) as well as other staff, are all active commuter cyclists.
In groups, we all had the opportunity to look at what are the most pressing issues for the community and individual cyclists.
Niki will circulate a draft strategy incorporating the collected views and I will give you an update when that is released.
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