Cycling Action Network

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Cycling Action Network (CAN) is a national cycling advocacy group founded in November 1996[1] in Wellington, New Zealand. They lobby government, local authorities, businesses and the community on behalf of cyclists, for a better cycling environment. It aims to achieve a better cycling environment for cycling as transport. Major initiatives are the annual Cycle Friendly Awards and support for a biennial Cycling Conference. The organisation was originally named Cycling Advocates' Network until it was formally changed at the annual general meeting on 20 March 2016.[2]

Goals

CAN's goals are:[3]

  • Promote integrated cycle planning
  • Promote the benefits of cycling
  • Improve safety
  • Encourage the creation of a good cycling environment
  • Develop cycle advocacy and cycle action

Chairpersons

The group is led an executive committee. Chairpersons of these committees are shown in the table below.

Chairpersons
Start End Name
? 17 July 2000 Sally StevensTemplate:Efn[4]
17 July 2000 11 October 2003 Jane DawsonTemplate:Efn[5]
11 October 2003 October 2004 David Laing[6]
October 2004 4 October 2008 Robert Ibell[7]
4 October 2008 14 November 2009 Axel Wilke & Glen KooreyTemplate:Efn[8]
14 November 2009 March or April 2010 Bevan Woodward[9]
April 2010 29 March 2015 Graeme LindupTemplate:Efn[10]
29 March 2015 20 March 2016 Graeme Lindup & Will AndrewsTemplate:Efn[2]
20 March 2016 July 2018 Will Andrews

Activities

NZ Cycling Conference

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CAN has made a major contribution to the establishment and ongoing success of the NZ Cycling Conference[11] series (15 October 1997, Hamilton; 14–15 July 2000, Palmerston North; 21–22 September 2001, Christchurch; 10–11 October 2003, North Shore; 14–15 October 2005 Hutt City; 1–2 November 2007, Napier; 12–13 November 2009, New Plymouth). Since 2012, the conference series has been combined with the previous NZ Walking Conference series and rebranded "2WALKandCYCLE" (February 2012, Hastings; October 2014, Nelson; July 2016, Auckland; Jul/Aug 2018, Palmerston North; March 2021, Dunedin).[12][13]

Cycle Friendly Awards

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Chainlinks

Chainlinks is the magazine of the NZ Cycling Action Network (CAN), which since 2017Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". is published three times a year as an electronic newsletter. About a 1000 copies are distributed to members of CAN and a number of supporting organisations such as local government authorities and cycling industry organisations.[16] Published since 1997, until 2015 it was a full-colour paper magazine,[16] whose back issues are available online.[17]

Association with other groups

CAN is the parent organisation for some 20 local cycling advocacy groups around the country,[18] including Bike Auckland and Spokes Canterbury.

CAN was a member of BikeNZ and provided one board member from BikeNZ's inception in July 2003. CAN resigned from BikeNZ in October 2007,[19] but continues to work with BikeNZ on advocacy issues.[20]

CAN works closely with Living Streets Aotearoa, the national walking advocacy group.

See also

Footnotes

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References

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External links

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