Southern View: October 05, 2023
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> 5 <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />
‘Bike hui’ first of its kind<br />
A NEW partnership between<br />
the city council, Bike On Trust<br />
and Waka Kotahi is supporting<br />
students to get the maximum<br />
benefit from their bikes and<br />
school tracks.<br />
The first ‘Bikes in Schools<br />
Ōtautahi Hui’, held at Te Ara<br />
Koropiko West Spreydon School,<br />
saw students and teachers from<br />
15 schools join the Cycle Safe<br />
team and Bike on Trust for a day<br />
of information and games.<br />
City council<br />
transport operations<br />
manager<br />
Stephen Wright<br />
said the hui was<br />
the first event of<br />
Stephen<br />
Wright<br />
its kind to be held<br />
in Christchurch.<br />
It was a great<br />
opportunity<br />
for schools to share ideas and<br />
experiences on how to get the<br />
most out of their bikes and bike<br />
tracks, he said.<br />
“Our team are keen to see<br />
our school kids learn new skills<br />
and get the chance to enjoy the<br />
fun that cycling brings,” Wright<br />
said.<br />
The Bikes in Schools programme<br />
involves schools<br />
constructing purpose-built cycle<br />
tracks on the school grounds,<br />
a fleet of new bikes and bike<br />
helmets, and storage facility,<br />
plus skills training for staff and<br />
students.<br />
Paul<br />
McArdle<br />
Paul McArdle<br />
from the Bike<br />
On Trust, said<br />
the trust works<br />
to give children<br />
regular and equal<br />
access to bikes<br />
and bike tracks<br />
within their<br />
school environment.<br />
McArdle is hopeful the hui<br />
model will be picked up by<br />
councils around New Zealand.<br />
“We hope other councils<br />
will follow Christchurch City<br />
Council’s lead, because when the<br />
cycling groups partner up, we<br />
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McArdle said school children<br />
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“Encouraging and supporting<br />
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Waka Kotahi has developed<br />
cycling games and resources<br />
for schools to use to help to get<br />
the most out of their bikes and<br />
bike tracks.<br />
Rangers<br />
power<br />
up with<br />
e-utes<br />
CITY COUNCIL rangers are<br />
moving towards being ‘e-rangers’<br />
with the arrival of two new<br />
electric utes.<br />
The twin cab utes are a new<br />
addition for the Port Hills and<br />
Banks Peninsula regional park<br />
rangers, joining the fleet of one<br />
electric ‘side-by-side’ LUV vehicle<br />
and an electric motorcycle.<br />
“These vehicles may look like<br />
a standard park ranger ute, but<br />
they do enable the majority of our<br />
daily work – while helping out the<br />
environment and incurring reduced<br />
operational costs as we do<br />
it,” said Port Hills and Banks Peninsula<br />
head ranger Paul Devlin.<br />
The trucks come with a standard<br />
3-pin plug in the truck, allowing<br />
rangers to run electric tools or<br />
handheld battery chargers off the<br />
truck’s battery pack.<br />
“These basic 2WD EV utes with<br />
a range of 400km can still do 75<br />
per cent of the things we need<br />
ranger trucks to do. Just not off<br />
road, in the snow or towing too<br />
much,” Devlin said.<br />
He said it was a move towards<br />
the city council’s sustainability<br />
policy goals.<br />
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