Nicola has more than 20 years’ experience as a Transportation Engineer and Design Lead for transportation, urban renewal and roading projects including separated cycleways, rail level crossings and road infrastructure as well as experience with schools, mining facilities, defence facilities and marinas in New Zealand and Australia. Nicola is currently a Design Leader for the Peloton Major Cycleway Design Team and manages a multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational team to produce scheme and detailed design documentation for the $165M Major Cycleway Routes in Christchurch.

Oliver is a senior transportation engineer based in Christchurch. With over 19 years’ engineering experience he has delivered cycleway route identification, design and implementation, road safety audits and inspections, traffic signal design and crash analysis projects. Olivers current role is delivery team scheme lead for projects to be implemented by Peloton (multi-consultancy delivery team), where he has been active in the MCA of multiple routes. This has resulted in an open, transparent and defendable analysis being undertaken to obtain Council and Public confidence.

Graeme is a senior engineer with over 20 years of NZ and UK/Ireland civil engineering experience, in the transportation sector. Based in Christchurch a recent role has been as project design lead for a number of the major cycleway routes being designed and implemented by Peloton (a partnership between Beca, GHD and Stantec) on behalf of Christchurch City Council. He has a “fair bit” of MCA experience on both CCC and NZTA projects. In 2015 he wrote a MCA guidance document for Christchurch City Council for use on the CCC Major Cycleway Project which included criteria for impacts in accordance with NZTA guidelines. Graeme believes a project should be objectively robust and defendable, and that objectivity can be achieved through the MCA process…. Well that’s the theory anyway….the rest is down to the right weightings and sensitivity analysis….!

Jeanette is a transportation engineer based in Christchurch. Her passion is 'streetscape design' and she has had the opportunity to be involved in quite a number of projects where she gets to do this! She enjoys the project team approach and learning from other disciplines.

Sharmin has over 12 years’ experience across a broad range of transport schemes and currently leads one of the Transport Design teams in Auckland. Her work spans across both planning and design teams. Sharmin’s experience includes corridor investigations, cycle network planning and lead roles in civil infrastructure design projects. These roles have gained Sharmin experience in cycle infrastructure planning and design, bus performance investigations, road infrastructure improvements and transportation design for urban roads for Auckland Transport. She has additional experience in urban town centre design and development which has gained her valuable experience in addressing various stakeholder and user needs and the successful integration of pedestrian, cycle, traffic and urban design requirements.

I am a Transport Planner in Auckland Transport's Walking & Cycling Department. I am responsible for walking and cycling projects in West Auckland and for monitoring of cycling in Auckland (and walking to a lesser extent). I have eight years experience working in the transport industry, having previously worked at Sustrans in the UK.

Over the past 5 years almost 5,000 people have attended Share the Road workshops, events or presentations which focus on good road sharing between heavy vehicle drivers and cyclists. We get drivers out on bikes and cyclists into trucks. Much has been learned from listening and observing these activities. Richard has gained the trust and support of hardened truck operators and gnarly cyclists in all corners of the country. He also reviews and designs Greenways Plans for Auckland Local Boards, is a committee member of Bike Auckland and founding trustee of the Active Transport Trust.

John Lieswyn has designed active transportation monitoring programmes for numerous US and NZ cities. He is a specialist in data collection, analysis, economic evaluation, and using the key takeaway data to support a multi-modal 'complete streets' system. Sandi Morris led active transport and parking management programmes for over a decade at Palmerston North City Council. She has been a longstanding contributor to the Active Modes Infrastructure Group. Glenn Connelly is one of the most experienced transportation engineers in New Zealand and has pioneered several innovative cycleways in Palmerston North.

Sandi Morris was the Transportation Planner for PN City Council for over 13 years. Her primary work focus was Pedestrian, Cycle and Parking infrastructure planning, investigation, design and construction. Sandi has been working as the Senior Civil Technician for WSP Opus since Feb 2017.

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