Keep Wellington motorcycling free - sign the petition!

[caseye]

You have to ask.! Go back to sleep.
NZ citys are particularly vulnerable to a few well placed traffic jams.
Lets just wait and see the outcome of the talks first aye.

[Owl]

Keep up spreading the word - 4001 singatures.

I wonder how many signatures have been lost? I signed, but no confirmation e-mail and name doesn't appear. I tried a second time, but apparently I'm already on it?

[Reckless]

I wonder how many signatures have been lost? I signed, but no confirmation e-mail and name doesn't appear. I tried a second time, but apparently I'm already on it?

Owl I didn't get my reply instantly it took a while for the confirmation email to come through! I thought the same as you for an hour or so!

[steve_t]

Owl I didn't get my reply instantly it took a while for the confirmation email to come through! I thought the same as you for an hour or so!

It took nearly 3 hours for my email to come through

[Owl]

I've been waiting about a week. I haven't left my keyboard in all that time.

[StoneY]

I've been waiting about a week. I haven't left my keyboard in all that time.

PM me your actual name used on the petition I will search for it to ensure you were added

[Fatt Max]

Mine came through in a few minutes.....no pie voucher though, tight bastards those WCC people

[caseye]

Mine came through in a few minutes.....no pie voucher though, tight bastards those WCC people

Na mate it's those tight wadded bloody Welly BRONZ guys they knew it was you and revoked the pie voucher! te he he.Be that bloody Stoney fer sure.

[Bald Eagle]

Na mate it's those tight wadded bloody Welly BRONZ guys they knew it was you and revoked the pie voucher! te he he.Be that bloody Stoney fer sure.

We are saving up the pie vouchers for the shared lunch at the next bikeoi.

[caseye]

Tui's ANYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crying ere I yam Eagle, oh that was too good.It's a luch I look frorward to sharing with you.

[DEVVIL]

We are saving up the pie vouchers for the shared lunch at the next bikeoi.

Thats it then Fat Max is TEC to give us a chance to get a voucher

[howdamnhard]

Petition signed.

[cheshirecat]

I assume there is absolutely not truth in the rumour the Rebels are coming over to 'assist' WCC in their MC parking policy.

[Owl]

I've been waiting about a week. I haven't left my keyboard in all that time.

Ok I tried again on Thursday using my full name................, but still no e-mail

I'm not bitter though.

[Owl]

Right, third time lucky

Changed my e-mail address and it came through straight away, although added to junk. Buggered if I know what's going on there?

[Bald Eagle]

Seems we are not considered as a contributor to the compact city approach unlike buses, car sharing clubs and cycle parking. Even though the majority of cars travel into the city at 25% passenger capacity while bikes are at 50% capacity and some at 100%. I don't think I've ever seen a car at 100% capacity during my daily commutes in and out of the city.

Extract from Pg 7 of the Parking policy document.

.."Parking should support the compact city approach and promote the
efficient use of the road space resource to achieve sustainability
objectives (such as allocating road space for buses at peak times on
appropriate routes, identifying spaces for the use of car sharing clubs
and cycle parking)"

[caseye]

Give em heaps mate.Publishing something as outdated as that is just asking for trouble.
And Welly BRONZ are just the bother boys to give it em!.

[StoneY]

Ok we meet them tomorrow
This is a casual discussion pre-consultation process

Present will be
Me
Anthony from MAG
Cherie from WIMA
Peter from Ulysses
The owner of Scootrazi (dunno his name but Jess speaks highly of him)
A guy from Island Bay who sent me copies of his submissions, boy is he on our side and looks like he's smart too!

I will be reporting directly to the BRONZ Members tomorrow night at the Parrot n Jigger in Lower Hutt

Will reserve the Kiwibiker response for Wednesday

Cheers all

Better go stretch a bit and see if the gloves still fit methinks.............

[cheshirecat]

Seems we are not considered as a contributor to the compact city approach unlike buses, car sharing clubs and cycle parking. Even though the majority of cars travel into the city at 25% passenger capacity while bikes are at 50% capacity and some at 100%. I don't think I've ever seen a car at 100% capacity during my daily commutes in and out of the city.

Extract from Pg 7 of the Parking policy document.

.."Parking should support the compact city approach and promote the
efficient use of the road space resource to achieve sustainability
objectives (such as allocating road space for buses at peak times on
appropriate routes, identifying spaces for the use of car sharing clubs
and cycle parking)"

There's little if any mention of motorbikes in either their transportation or enviroment policies - only parking. I sense a Youtube video comming on.

[StoneY]

Ok, initial meeting done

This was NOT a formal consultation (yet) and was a brief discussion on strategy and direction, a meeting of minds so to speak.
I for one was impressed at the approach they took, we were listened to and ASKED for input and advice.

Present for Motorcyclists was Peter Mac from Ulysses, Cherie Flintoff from WIMA (CherryB here on KB) and Anthony Foreman from MAG NZ.

Tentatively, we have an understanding that we will not LOSE any parking we curtrently have, although a reshuffle of locations and some area's with heavy retail focus MAY get time limited... guess thats a reality we need to face.

Council will push hard to all private parking providors to provide ecconomiccaly viable access (eg 50$ a month) which should include Gear Lockers, and low level access so we dont have to ride clutches up ramps.
This will not be used as a replacement for our existing free parking. BUT they are running out of options

Council is encouraging us (thats YOU and ME) to approach our employers in regards access to parking off street on company grounds where we can, to aleviate pressure on roadside parking.
They also were very open to us as a community finding locations suitable to be marked as Motorcycle parking - eg where we find spots no car could use but 2-3 bikes can - I made an exapmle with the space in Courtenay Place by the old public loo at Taranaki st, small paved culdesac no pedestrians ever use for ANYTHING - ideal 6 bike parking spot.

Jon Visser was present and his boss the Director of Infrastructure, both were amiccable and


We also had a member of the public present who seemed to want Wellingtons Footpaths turned into Parisian Cafe's!
He stormed out after a rant, was quite entertaining!
Only one nay sayer from Council was in the room, he saved up a bit of a serve on bike safety till the end.
We will be responding with some figures for this gentelman to ensure he gets his facts right.

I will be handing this issue off to Paul Ellen BRONZ Wgtn VP (Bald Eagle here on KB) and Byron Cummins BRONZ Wgtn (The_Dude) for future ongoing consultation as I have more than enough to do with ACC etc

I think we have made our point in the opening discussion and I was surprised how open to our input Council actually is in this matter (or seem to be)
The Petition definitely got some attention thats for sure!