Submission: Lane Use Improvements
The New Zealand Transport Agency is consulting on changes to the road code to improve safety for vulnerable road users, including cyclists. We support the proposal, with some changes.
We made this submission to the New Zealand Transport Agency on 18 March 2025.
Our key positions:
- We support the first proposal in principle (to allow children up to age 12 to ride on the footpath), but it must be noted that it is unlikely to have the intended positive impacts as anticipated in the discussion document.
- We wholeheartedly support the second proposal to set a minimum passing gap for when vehicles pass other road users.
- We are supportive of the third proposal (to allow people to ride e-scooters in cycle lanes) and do not anticipate any significant issues.
- We do not have a view on the fourth and fifth proposals (to require drivers to give way to buses leaving bus stops and to clarify signage requirements for enforcing berm parking restrictions, respectively).
Find the text of our submission below.