# Spokes informal meet up (October) - Now at Dunedin Social Club

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**Author:** ![NathanK](https://spokes.nz/user_avatar/spokes.nz/nathank/32/2002_2.png) [@NathanK](https://spokes.nz/u/NathanK)\
**Post date:** [5 October 2025 23:06 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/spokes-informal-meet-up-october-now-at-dunedin-social-club/1242/7 "2025-10-05T23:06:08Z")

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This would be a good opportunity to launch (or at least discuss launching) #Things to Fix.

The premise is that budgets are tight, but there is scope to fix small / cheap things which are likely to have a large impact on those cycling. The DCC doesn’t have a good way to identify these things.

As ‘eyes on the ground’, we are ideally placed to articulate what needs fixing, and which fixes are high value ‘wins’. These are great as wiki topics, that can be iteratively improved. Here is a good example:

> [@Traffic lights not responding to bikes](https://spokes.nz/t/traffic-lights-not-responding-to-bikes/478):
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> The following junctions have lights that do not respond to bikes. That is to say that a bike does not trigger the ground-loop detector and the traffic lights never cycle to give the bike a green light. After a while the cyclist realises this and has to jump the light. The list is not exhaustive - feel free to add more examples. (All members can edit this post directly) Stuart Street near Moana pool Octagon Barns Drive/Caversham Valley Rd (SH1) Rattray St/York Pl/Arthur St David Street/South R…

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