September 2026 Newsletter

Posted by 967sc on September 11, 2026

https://www.cyclewellington.org.nz/september_2026_newsletter

Calls to action

Sign the Miramar Peninsula petition

Sign the petition to transform the road around Miramar Peninsula into a people and nature safe haven that will be fitting for that beautiful nature area.

Let’s get to 1000 signatures! Sign here today!

Upcoming bikeness

Come and Ride Together! Wellington Para Cycling Activation

Saturday 12 September

Hataitai Velodrome

1:00pm - Community Education Session

2:00pm onwards - Have a Go Session

Whether you're ready to ride or just want to come and see what it's all about and have a chat, you are very welcome. Both sessions are free. All are welcome. More info here.

Capital BMX Season Open Day

9:30am Sunday 13 September

Western Suburbs Rugby Clubrooms - 91 Curtis Street, Wilton

Whether you are trying BMX for the first time or setting a new gate record, everyone is welcome! Club bikes, helmets and gloves provided for newcomers. More info on Eventfinda.

PNP Track Open Day

1:00pm Saturday 19 September

Hataitai Velodrome - access from Ruahine St 

Want to try track cycling? Come to the PNP Open Day by registering here.

Bikes provided, but bring your own helmet! For more info see pnp.org.nz/track

Aotearoa Healthy Shift Webinar - Caroline Shaw

12noon Thursday 24 September 2026

You are invited to the next webinar in the Aotearoa Healthy Shift series. This is a collaboration between Cycling Action Network, University of Otago Transport Research Network, and Living Streets Aotearoa. 

This webinar features Dr Caroline Shaw and is titled: Access or influence? An analysis of Transport Ministers’ diaries in Aotearoa, NZ

Register here.

Saddle Club

4:30pm Friday 25 September

Pukeahu and multiple pickup points - see below!

Join us for a social ride around the central city and beers and chats after. We’ll be doing this each month on the last Friday over summer. Family friendly, but be prepared to ride in traffic on some streets!

  • Meet at Pukeahu from 4:30pm

  • Ride start at 5pm

  • General route: Karo Drive -> Willis St. -> Lambton Quay -> Parliament -> Waterfront -> Kent Tce -> Pukeahu -> Heyday Brewery, Cuba St.

  • Pick up points with indicative times we’ll pass through for you to join the ride:

    • 5pm Pukeahu

    • 5:10pm Old motorway off ramp (Cnr Willis & Ghuznee opposite St. Peters)

    • 5:20pm Parliament steps

    • 5:30pm Bluebridge Ferry car park / Lady Elizabeth Lane

    • 5:33pm Queens Wharf under the sails

    • 5:40pm Wellington sign on the waterfront

    • 5:55pm Pukeahu

    • 6pm Heyday Brewery on Cuba Street

Cycle Forward - Fundraising ride

Sunday 27 September

Te Ara Tupua

Public talk by Dr Ian Walker - Motonormativity: How we struggle to see the problems of car dependency

5:30pm Friday 9 October

Architecture and Design Innovation, Victoria University of Wellington, Vivian Street

Why do we expect pedestrians to stand and wait in the rain while people in cars are given priority? Why do our media present deaths and injuries on the road as unpredictable, and outside our control?

Ian Walker is a professor of environmental psychology at Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom. He has worked on issues of road safety and travel-mode choice for around 25 years, with a particular interest in what stops people from making more journeys by clean, healthy modes of transport.

Get your free ticket.

Next Cycle Wellington Meeting

6pm Tuesday 6 October 2026

Sustainability Trust, 2 Forresters Lane, and online.

 

Recent goings on

Imagine Streets for People public talk

 

Cycle Wellington Co-Chair Alex Dyer and Prof Marco te Brömmelstroet after the talk.

Thanks to Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Boffa Miskell, Victoria University of Wellington, and PTAANZ for supporting the public talk given by Prof Marco te Brömmelstroet on July 31st here in Pōneke. 

Prof Brömmelstroet’s talk showed how language is instrumental in forming our reality and how we can shift our perceptions and language to reshape cities, towns, streets and public spaces. 

Instead of reinforcing narratives like time savings and trips being an activity that needs to be minimised (by making roads faster to drive on, say), he calls on more people to center on the potential of streets as the public space between buildings to facilitate a broad spectrum of human activity and enable the rich interactions and social connections that can come from more people moving in healthier ways. 

Watch a recording of Marco’s talk from Auckland;

 and his appearance on Q+A with Jack Tame:

Freyberg Street being made permanent

The proposal, as covered by traffic resolution TR50-26 to formalise the changes to the street, was approved by the Te Takere/Regulatory Processes Committee at its meeting on 5 August 2026.

This means the changes to Freyberg Street will be made permanent.

This approval means that:

  • The planter boxes and seats which create a modal filter in the closed part of Freyberg St to through traffic while maintaining property access and allowing pedestrians, cyclists and micro mobility users to pass through will remain.

  • Changes will be made to the Freyberg/Wha Street intersection to replace the painted road surface and bollards with extended kerbs to allow shorter crossing distance and to support slower vehicle speeds.

Committee supported the proposal to keep the road changes because evidence showed that the trial arrangement reduced vehicle speeds and volume, making the area safer for children and families travelling to and from Lyall Bay School and for residents in the area.

They also accepted the trade-off between safety and the convenience of people using Freyberg Street to pass through.

Concerns that Queens Drive now carries more traffic were also acknowledged, but it was noted that with the introduction of safety measures during the trial, vehicle speeds have been reduced to enhance safety.

WCC

Tahitai - Evans Bay path construction is complete. Woot! Give it a try!

Work starting this week on the Martin Luckie park track in Berhampore. The path construction is expected to be finished by the end Oct.

Fighting back against online threats

Patrick Morgan. Photo: DAVID UNWIN / THE POST

Our own Patrick Morgan recently faced three of the men behind the “Better Wellington” lobby group in court, seeking justice by way of the Harmful Digital Communications Act, which is increasingly being used for redress by people who say they’ve suffered abuse, harassment or trolling online.

Morgan has his own reasons for speaking up, particularly in what he describes as a “hostile” environment for cycle advocates.

“I'm doing this for other people who may feel similar harm, but for whatever reason are unable to follow up.”

Read the full story on The Post here.