12 days of Christmas / 12 months of 2026

Things to Fix
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Last night at the pub we discussed that we should prepare a new year wish list that we could share with the dcc. The idea is that these are “quick” (“affordable”) things that could reasonably be ticked off in 2026. In the spirit of Christmas we’ve limited ourselves to 12 items.

Looking at the list this morning it is clear that some of these are much more than “quick”. It might be sensible to move some of these to longer term aspirations, and identify some more achievable one.

It would really great to have input from the wider spokes membership, so please add your suggestions and comments in this thread.

The list (version 0.1):

  • Cyclists allowed to use the end of the barnes dance phase
  • contra-flow signed on George st
  • Warrender st uphill shared path
  • Bike detection on certain signalled junctions eg ne valley
  • Way finding on junctions - lack of lines to direct cyclists.
  • Green paint everywhere!
  • Anti Glass campaign
  • Speed reductions - 30 kph and speed bumps
  • Leith st junctions
  • Model filters eg caversham town centre
  • Move cycle ramp by 10cm at railway pedestrian overpass.
  • A safe Portsmouth drive crossing
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Informal Spokes Dunedin Meeting December 2025
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  1. :person_biking: Policy: mandate businessess with greater than 20 parking stalls for customers must provide a secure approved bike rack near the entrance of the store proportional to the number of carparks (im looking at you The Warehouse and supermarkets)
  2. :person_biking: Hire Ben Ross ex Auckland Advoctate for Human-Centered Urbanism as a Dunedin City planner (He’s currerntly looking for a job) https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrossakl/
  3. :person_biking: Maintain cycleways (like Port to Port) with Weed trimmers at least annually.
  4. :person_biking: Tone down all the cycling barriers on Port to Port cycleway.
  5. :person_biking: Add Bike Valet service at popular city sponsored events where bikes are checked in like a coat check.
  6. :person_biking: Policy: New buildings of X size required X number of indoor bike parking and X number of shower stalls for commuters and building occupants.
  7. :person_biking: Driver Education program to alert drivers to be aware of and safe around cyclists and provide adequate passing buffer
  8. :person_biking: Increasing timeout on green bike traffic light signal to cyclists from 3 seconds to 10 seconds to allow cyclists to actually make it thru the intersection before turning red.
  9. :person_biking: Commit at least 1 councilor to meeting with a spokes infrastructure advocate and “other” transport mode advocates at least 6 times per year to disucss progress on Dunedins bike strategy.
  10. :person_biking: Implement a city wide cylce to school campaign and add proper cycleways within 200m of all schools.
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Of these 12 sort of easy-win items, the one that seems most important to me is the Portsmouth Dr. crossing. It doesn’t frequently affect me–I just cruise on by on my way to the Peninsula–but it would scare and frustrate me if I had to make that crossing frequently.

I would include a Barnes dance at Anzac Ave and St Andrews St. Though, re the Barnes dance issue in general, one can always just hop off one’s bike, even from the right-turn lane, and walk across. Once when I did this, someone yelled at me that I was cheating. I told him it was not cheating but a superpower.

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Barnes dance crossings and George Street heading north
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Both of these are things that the dcc are aware of and working on - the former has budget issues, but there is active discussion on options. The latter is tied up with NZTA and new hospital build.