Promoting bikes as transport for people. after being a cycle courier for a few years, and having a passion for access and opportunity for all, it makes sense to invite people to join and enjoy life in the bike lane.

Bridget Burdett is a Principal Researcher at MRCagney, based in Hamilton. She is a Chartered Engineer in transport with a doctorate in cognitive psychology. Bridget regularly presents on inclusive access and road safety to audiences of transport professionals and community, with a focus on challenging us all to think about what ‘best practice’ means for the people we work with, and those we serve. She works on transport research, policy, and practice for a variety of government, university, and private sector clients around New Zealand.

Angela Curl is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Health, University of Otago Christchurch. Her interests concern the relationships between transport, social inequalities and health.

Helen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Lincoln University's Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Tourism. She has a long-standing interest in social and cultural aspects of transport use and is currently working on a project exploring the use of electric vehicles in tourism.

Ben has more than 12 years professional experience. Over this time, he has specialised in broad scale landscape planning and the design of walking and cycling infrastructure. Having worked at the ‘coal-face’ within Auckland Transport and as a consultant at Beca, Ben has a working knowledge of the challenges faced and lessons learnt across a wide range of walking/cycling and multi-modal projects as the client. Ben is known for his high degree of positively and passion to walking and cycle path design and thrives on successfully aligning the thinking and efforts of engineering and environmental disciplines, key stakeholders, advocacy groups.

Bill Frith has worked in the transport sector since 1973.He has written and spoken extensively as an advocate and technical expert on road safety and other areas of land transport. Bill was Manager Research and Statistics at the Ministry of Transport until 2007 and managed the Austroads Safety Programme from 2004 to 2006. His recent work has included projects on the safety and environmental impact of road lighting, pedestrian safety, cycle safety, motorcycle safety, older driver safety, post-crash crash victim care, the impact of demographic change on travel and safety, quad bike safety and fuel efficient driving.

Mike Jackett is a highly experienced traffic engineer who has been involved in road lighting since 1973 as a New Zealand representative on the joint road lighting standards committee, as the NZ representative for CIE division 4 and as a road lighting trainer, a designer and a researcher. Mike has participated in a series of road lighting projects starting in 2008. During these projects he pioneered the use of a calibrated digital camera to measure luminance of the road surface, to allow luminance measurements to be made from a moving test vehicle and to measure both sky glow and upward light.

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Ina Stenzel works as a Principal Specialist – Active and Shared Modes Design at Auckland Transport. She is a technical design specialist on active modes and works as a specialist design advisor and leader on a wide range of projects in Auckland. She has over 19 years of work experience. Her main focus of work has been on project managing, advising and reviewing walking and cycling projects and a range of large multi-modal corridor projects. In addition she led the training of best practice walking and cycling design within AT and externally. She is driven to achieve the best outcomes for sustainable urban transport and active modes. Her main motivation is to provide people with safe and sustainable transport options to move around and to connect. She enjoys the challenge of finding solutions to incorporate walking and cycling infrastructure in the design and retrofit of streets, adopting international best practice within the NZ context.

Brian Wolfman works in Development Planning at Auckland Transport to provide advice to Auckland Council of the transport implications of new developments to inform resource consents. Brian has a background in transportation engineering and worked for AT since the beginning of 2017, with much of that time spent planning and delivering walking and cycling projects. He has recently become a father of twins and is realising how challenging it is to make family trips by bike in his home north shore suburb given safety concerns as well as a cultural stigma against cycling with young children in a bike trailer. His passion is that cycling in New Zealand becomes normalised and attractive for people of all ages and abilities.