This page is where statements from organisations go once they’ve signed on to the Cycling Works campaign, which asserts that bike infrastructure is good for business!
Sandfield
Bikeable cities are the world’s most liveable and exciting places to live. Talent, which is in global demand, wants to live in these cities. Cycling helps reduce carbon emissions, eases traffic congestion, saves money and supports a fun and healthy lifestyle.
Brightly
At Brightly we love getting around by bike – it’s better for us, better for the environment, and a great way for us to get out and see customers and suppliers in central Auckland. We’d love more safe and protected cycleways so that our team can feel more confident when they’re cycling around the city.
Mark Frazerhurst Architects
We should all have the choice to protect the future of our planet, by walking or cycling safely and efficiently within Auckland. The ability to leave the car at home, and get from A to B under our own power, should not be an unusual choice.
Nomad8
More and better cycling infrastructure for Auckland is a total no-brainer. Healthier for people, for the environment, for the planet. People who bike are happier, healthier and more productive. Why would you not want safe and effective biking options for whoever wants them.
Sparks Interactive
Everyone deserves a safe place in our communities, and people who ride bikes deserve a safe place in our transport networks. Clear separation from cars, trucks and transport vehicles improves travel time and safety for everyone on the road. Well-planned, long term sustainable infrastructure is a winner for us all!
Paediatric Occupational Therapy
We would like to see tamariki and rangatahi being able to safely ride to school or to enjoy biking around our beautiful city with whānau and friends.
Impact Digital
We love an easily accessible, well-connected city!
Multitudes
As a tech startup with a remote distributed team, flexibility in our work and life is important. Investing in active and public modes of transport gives people the flexibility they need to get around – to work, business meetings, coffee chats, events, and errands – in an efficient, quick, and fun way. Future-facing organisations understand that reducing our emissions is key to a thriving future for all – for businesses, yes, but also our communities, ecosystems, and the planet on which all of our businesses depend.
Spacecraft Architects
We would cycle everywhere if we could! Paired with a functioning train/rapid bus network, cycling could cover almost all the trips we need to do for work. Our colleagues all cycle to work and to most site visits. Electric bikes mostly solved the challenge of hills for those who want to avoid pedalling up them.
Julian King & Associates Ltd
A network of safe connected cycleways is a feature of the world’s most liveable cities. Auckland has made a great start but we’re not there yet. Let’s keep going and make this a city where it’s easy, equitable, environmentally sustainable and enjoyable to get around!
Proxima
Safer and more efficient. We’re pedaling towards a healthier Auckland!
NZ Green Building Council
New Zealand Green Building Council | Te Kaunihera Hanganga Tautaiao o Aotearoa supports the Cycling Works Pledge. Making cycling easier, safer, and more accessible is great for all New Zealanders. We’ve seen firsthand the impact excellent end of trip facilities can have in the buildings designed, built, and operated through our Green Star and Green Star Performance certifications. Our own offices in the Auckland CBD have terrific end of trip facilities and it makes it so much more accessible for people to take up lower carbon transport options.
Great cycling infrastructure, including end of trip facilities, is good for business, for the value of properties, for New Zealander’s health, and absolutely vital for a low-carbon future.
Action Actors
ActionActors, a unique temp employment agency founded initially to source non acting work for professional actors between their acting gigs, have had the pleasure of being the contracted supplier of Transport Ambassadors to AT for the last 5yrs. In that capacity we have been involved in a numerous cycling activations. The dynamic of working with cyclists in comparison to car drivers, highlights the states of mind people are in when cycling as opposed to driving in clogged traffic. Every populated area, especially cities should put significant resource into encouraging people to have bikes as an urban transport option.
Big Red IT
Cycling is not only a better transport option for the environment, it’s fantastic for your health and wellbeing!
Retina Specialists Ltd
We believe that our staff, clients and fellow Aucklanders should be free to choose cycling as a safe and healthy option for getting around. Good cycling infrastructure is vital for this.
The Vic
Kia ora
The Vic Devonport is a community cinema and venue and a heritage bulding in the heart of Devonport. Two of our full time staff come to work on a bicycle. We would love a dedicated bike lane for them to travel on. I regularly hear from our patrons that Lake Road is unsafe to travel on with a bicycle and that’s why they don’t use it and why they won’t let their children travel on it either. Parking outside the cinema is scarce. I believe safer travel on bikes lanes would help increase business. We would also welcome more bike parking outside our building and the streets of devonport as there is currently only one bike stand outside our building and one outside the neighbouring cafe. Each bike stand can only hold two bikes.
Nga mihi nui
— Philipp Jaser, Director, The Vic Limited
Dotmatics
Our people are passionate about fostering an easily accessible, well-connected community where everyone can enjoy the benefits of biking to work and in a safe way. As a part of the scientific community with a mission of creating a healthier, cleaner, and safer world to live, Dotmatics supports this Cycling Works campaign. Let’s pedal towards a brighter, greener future together!
Cemplicity
Cemplicity is in the business of healthcare so supporting the development of safe cycling in Auckland is important to us. Several of our staff cycle to work and more would like to if it were safer. […] Poor design and lack of action leads to serious injury and death. We know this so it should be a priority to address the gaps and weaknesses in our cycling network.
— Mary Vance, Executive Director and Co-Founder
Sustainable Business Network
The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) enables system change in the areas of climate, waste and nature. Our role is to transform leading ideas on sustainable business into action in Aotearoa New Zealand.
As a long-standing advocate of active transport modes with our staff, business network and Aotearoa New Zealand, SBN is proud to support the Cycling Works initiative.
Advocating for better cycling infrastructure will accelerate the shift to a low carbon circular economy. This will reduce emissions, improve public health and help livable cities to thrive. By making cycling a viable mode of transportation we can foster vibrant and connected communities, better business and a sustainable future for all.
Lauren O’Connor, Head of Culture & Engagement
mSupply Foundation
50% of the staff in The mSupply Foundation’s Auckland office bike to work.
Many of our staff feel unsafe on roads. We would highly value more protected cycleways to enable staff to be safer, and for cycling to be accessible to another 30% of our staff who could bike if they felt safe.
We compete for our very talented staff in a pool that includes major Australian cities, and the lack of safe cycling infrastructure in Auckland compared to those cities is continually brought up by staff as a competitive disadvantage for Auckland.
We could fix that.
— Craig Drown, CEO
First Class Gardens
More bikes = less cars.
Less cars = less traffic congestion.
Less traffic = more productivity.
It’s not rocket science that bikes are good for business. Let’s get Auckland moving with a safe and connected cycle network.
Refill Nation
As a business focused on sustainability, we believe in the importance of providing safe and environmentally friendly transportation options to communities throughout Auckland.
ViaStrada
All the science shows that build it and they will come, and that providing people transport choices reduces congestion for people who must drive.
Mevo
Put simply, in all of us is the desire to leave the world better for our grandchildren then we found it. Building safer cycle infrastructure in the cities we call home is a great way to achieve this.
Car sharing plays a pivotal role in supporting the development of safer cycle infrastructure in Auckland & other New Zealand cities. By reducing the number of privately owned vehicles on the road, car share services help alleviate traffic congestion and the need for parking space, creating a more bike-friendly environment. This shift not only encourages more people to consider cycling as a viable mode of transport but also prioritizes the need for dedicated cycle lanes and safer routes.
As car share adoption grows, the demand for better cycling infrastructure becomes more apparent, leading to increased investment in protected bike lanes, traffic calming measures, and other safety enhancements. Ultimately, car sharing and cycling infrastructure work hand-in-hand to create a more sustainable, accessible, and safer urban landscape for all New Zealanders.
— Mevo Co-founder/CEO & Sir Edmund Hillary Global Impact Fellow
