Cycling

Serious about cycling

The Green Party is committed to active life and transport. We believe that roads need to be better engineered to accommodate both drivers and cyclists safely.

The Green Party is promotes rebalancing the transport budget to spend less money on road, and more money on walking and cycling infrastructure.

One less Road of National Significance would fund all of New Zealand's needs for safe cycling lanes in our towns and cities.

Greater investment is desperately needed in cycling infrastructure to encourage more cyclists. This would enable our economy to realise the huge benefits more cyclists would create:  less congestion, less obesity, less expenditure on health budgets.

National Cycleway Project

The Government used our cycling expertise on the National Cycleway
project. Green MP and cycling spokesperson Kevin Hague is unusual
amongst politicians—he brings significant cycling expertise to
Parliament and the Cycleway is a whole lot smarter as a result of it.

Podcasts

The way we think about cyclists
Greg Paterson is the Auckland cyclist fighting for his life in hospital. He's one of about 200 cyclists who will be seriously injured or killed on our roads this year. He's also one of the huge majority of cyclists that gets injured or killed through no fault of their own. What has been this Government's response to date on creating both safer places for cyclists to ride and changing the attitudes of the drivers who are hurting them? Green MP and cycling advocate, Kevin Hague, has some answers. Listen to podcast

Kevin Hague on the National Cycleway Project
Green MP and passionate cyclist, Kevin Hague, discusses the imminent Government announcement on plans for the national cycleway. Will $50 million build more anything more than cow trail from Taihape to Timaru? And what is the correct etiquette for encountering a current Minister of Finance on the Otago rail trail? Listen to podcast

Videos

Nga Haerenga, the New Zealand Cycle Trail was officially launched on November 10th. View clips of the launch on TVNZ and on TV3.