Walk to Work day March 11 2020
Walking to work as often as you can makes a real difference for your health, your community and our planet.
Wellington event on Facebook here
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Andy Smith
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021 474740
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National level
Building better communities in New Zealand
Thought-leaders to share plans to improve the walking experience at second New Zealand Walking Summit
For the first time, Auckland will host the Walking Summit from 20 - 21 June - New Zealand's leading event for promoting walking-friendly communities.
Offering unique opportunities to hear from local and international experts on transport, accessibility and walkable communities, key topics this year include:
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New Living Streets Aotearoa tee shirts available now
We are thrilled to unveil our smart new tee shirts - the stunning prize for Walk2Work Day winners. These have been designed exclusively for us and can be ordered online, check out the resources page for details on how you can get one.
Thanks to Emily Bulkley for the new design (and Becky Bliss for our well loved logo inspiration for the tee shirts)
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Walking Summit 2019
The second New Zealand Walking Summit 20 and 21 June 2019
at the Auckland Transport Building in the Viaduct harbour, Auckland
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Walk2Work Day 2019
New Zealand's national day to celebrate walking
Would you join us on the 13th of March for Walk2Work Day celebration? Everyone is invited, the more, the merrier! The rules of the day are very simple:
- Take your favourite walk to work
- Walk with the kids to school
- Hop off the bus or train a couple of stops earlier and walk to work - that counts
- Park your car further from your destination and walk - that counts, too
- Use the stairs, and you are celebrating walking with us
- Walk to the shop or cafe
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All over New Zealand
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walk2work[a]livingstreets.org.nz
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Submission on Ageing Strategy 2018
Submission
Living Streets Aotearoa Inc. (LSA) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed Ageing Strategy.
Terminology
LSA notes that Age Concern prefers the term “older people”. LSA would recommend that the Ageing Strategy refers to ‘older people” rather than “seniors”. LSA will use the term “older people” in this submission.
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Research finds cycling on footpaths is dangerous… for cyclists
Submitted by andysmith on Sun, 05/08/2018 - 09:06August 2018
Victoria Walks has released the Footpath Cycling Discussion Paper
Victoria Walks, Council On The Ageing, Vision Australia and others strongly oppose any change to allow footpath cycling.
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Success at the Golden Foot Walking Awards
Samoan family walking clubs, a radical solution to a dangerous intersection and a hunt for the Gruffalo are among the winners of this year’s Golden Foot Awards.
The biennial awards ceremony is held by Living Streets Aotearoa to celebrate projects that help to promote walking - in cities, in the country and every day.
The six winners were presented with their award by Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter in a celebration at Parliament in Wellington. They were:
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AA Directions story on Pedestrian Safety
Submitted by andysmith on Thu, 28/06/2018 - 15:23Hi Living Streets Aotearoa,
Here is a PDF of the Directions story on Pedestrian Safety we talked about a while back when you came to visit.
The readership of Directions has increased recently and the magazine now has a circulation of ABC Audit 643,522 and a readership of AC Neilson 907,000.
The magazine will be distributed to AA Member letterboxes from 4 July.
Kind regards and thanks for your help with this story
Mike Noon
General Manager Motoring Affairs
Please see attachment below
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AGM of Living Streets Aotearoa
You are welcome to attend the AGM in Palmerston North. We will do a walk before the meeting.
This is the day before the 2WALK&CYCLE conference.
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The Theatre in Square Edge, 47 The Square
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Andy Smith
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021474740
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About Us
Living Streets Aotearoa is the New Zealand organisation for people on foot, promoting walking-friendly communities. We are a nationwide organisation with local branches and affiliates throughout New Zealand.
We want more people walking and enjoying public spaces be they young or old, fast or slow, whether walking, sitting, commuting, shopping, between appointments, or out on the streets for exercise, for leisure or for pleasure.