Posts by Alice Ronald
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to James Butler,
Totally agree - improving the infrastructure to minimise the likelihood of crashes means we'd do away with the need for helmets in the first place, which would likely make cycling a more attractive option for some people. It would also remove the need for a lot of the hi-vis gear & encourage slower cyclists who would probably cycle in their regular clothes, rather than the Lycra shorts that seem to enrage car drivers.
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I'd be all for it too - more cycle paths like the one along Matai St West, between the railway line & Chch Boys would be excellent.
I currently commute about 7km each way in around 25-30 minutes, which is only about 5 minutes longer than driving the same route. Since the quake we've moved to a different building where we don't have access to showers, so I bike a little slower (around 17-18km/hr as opposed to the 23-25 I used to do) & find I don't need to shower when I get to work.
Biking was definitely the way to get around after the quake - my commuting bike wasn't great with the cracks/slumps, but I definitely won in terms of getting from A to B faster - my normal 20 min drive from work to home took over an hour the one day I tried it! I've noticed a lot more cyclists out & about compared to last year - particularly ones who appear to have just found an old bike in the shed & started using it again.
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Some of the satellite townships/suburbs seem to have suffered more from the September quake than February's (sort of makes sense when you think about the locations of the faults). One friend in Brooklands talks about a particular sound the drains make every few weeks - it means they're full of silt & need to be sucked clear again.