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The Star Thursday June 6 2019 18 OUR PEOPLE Planning out the city’s transport system •From page 16 We spent the whole weekend together. There were five of us on that tramp and that was the only time I had met Julie. Then 10 years later, we met again. That is how you meet these days, Find Someone, an internet date. It was before we got together that Julie showed her best friend my photo and she said, oh, it’s Axel. Julie and her best friend had done a lot of tramping together over the years. That photo was handed on to another of her friends and she said Julie, Axel was on one of our tramps. We said no, we would remember each other, wouldn’t we? We could honestly not remember each other. My wife’s recollection of that particular tramp is that she was tramping with four other women. But then the friend said I’ve got photos of that tramp and there we were sitting next to each other around the bonfire. We have absolutely no recollection of one another. Chance really stuffed that one up. Tell me a little bit about your work, what do you do day-to-day? I do a variety of things. I do safety audits, I design traffic lights, I do a lot of planning in the cycling space, I do a lot of design work. One of the things I really enjoyed, I did this really early on in my career. Going ADVOCACY: Axel Wilke helped redesign the plan to change Cranford St. through university I thought, no wonder nobody knows what to do because you simply don’t learn it. I had one lecture, 45min that covered how you design for pedestrians, how you design street lights and how you accommodate cycling. The total of my undergrad for cycling was 15min. I thought holy s**t. I gathered a few like-minded people around me and said why don’t we get some professional training up-and-running and we did. We did it in a very deliberate way that made this a very slow process, it took us 18 months to talk some central Government agencies into it. We wanted their money and we didn’t want their money because we needed funding to do this, we could’ve already done it in our own time, in my case the Christchurch City Council was very supportive. We wanted money from central Government to have skin in the game. So we’ve been training since 2003 and have helped 1300 engineers and planners through professional training. This is outstandingly influential. We have turned New Zealand around from not knowing anything to it being a lot better. You can see it up and down the country, it’s much better. It really didn’t take long for people to pick it up and know what to do. It’s fantastic. Out of that, going back to my day job, our company ViaStrada, we do a lot of guideline development work, engineering and design development for the Government and the New Zealand Transport Agency mostly, which everyone follows in the country. That comes out of having this idea back in 2001, let’s get some professional training going. Have you had any funny transport blunders? What’s the worst designed road in Christchurch? The worst designed piece of road we’re about to have is Cranford St, immediately north of Innes Rd. It is absolutely astonishing. The plans are for a minimum width facility, next to a minimum width facility, next to a minimum width facility and projected traffic volumes of more than 40,000 vehicles a day. Unbelievable. My colleague and I once had a really massive stuff up. It wasn’t a city intersection. When a state highway goes through the city, the NZTA or back then it was probably still Transit New Zealand – they are the road patrolling authority – they had an intersection where they changed the form of control from roundabout to traffic lights. They ran the plan by the city council for sign-off and the transport planners thought this doesn’t look quite right, so they gave it to us designers to have a look at. A colleague of mine and I, we looked over it. What we did is we put these little post-it notes, tiny ones, whenever we found something wrong with the design on the big A1 plan and said what was wrong with it. When we finished, you couldn’t see the design any longer, the whole plan was covered. The guys made the decision rather than send it back to the consultants, why don’t we design it ourselves. We designed it with the city’s feedback and said here was a design that will work. Transit said thank you very much, it didn’t cost them a cent, ratepayers paid for it. So they built that thing, it opened and there was a crash once a day. We were absolutely horrified. What was happening was the intersection included this huge, sweeping slip lane. Whereby when people turned left there, the turn was such a large radius that many cars’ indicators wouldn’t reset. •Turn to page 21 HAVE YOUR SAY Change the speed limits? We want to make Christchurch roads safer. We’re reviewing speed limits across our roading network. 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