Te Ara Mua – Future Streets https://www.futurestreets.org.nz Future Streets is an exciting project to make streets in Māngere Central safer and easier for people to travel around, especially by walking or cycling. Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:33:07 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.4 https://www.futurestreets.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Te Ara Mua – Future Streets https://www.futurestreets.org.nz 32 32 Post Pandemic Futures Series: The Shared Path https://www.futurestreets.org.nz/post-pandemic-futures-series-the-shared-path/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:33:07 +0000 https://www.futurestreets.org.nz/?p=3876 The post Post Pandemic Futures Series: The Shared Path appeared first on Te Ara Mua - Future Streets.

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In this paper, the author makes the case that Aotearoa needs low-traffic neighbourhoods and cities to reduce emissions, improve road safety, and create the connected urban communities we need in a post-pandemic future. Te Ara Mua – Future Streets is used as a case study (page 34) for overcoming obstacles as part of neighbourhood street change projects. Access
Prepared for The Helen Clark Foundation and WSP by Holly Walker, November 2020

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Covid-19 Update – Project postponed

Our thoughts are with everyone in Māngere and we wish you all, and your whānau and friends good health and wellbeing during this extremely difficult time.

Covid-19 has caused a huge disruption to the everyday way of life of New Zealanders. It has changed the way we work, learn, shop, and the way we get around our suburbs. Even after lockdown is over, people’s everyday behaviour is unlikely to return to normal for a long time.

For these reasons, the research team has decided to postpone all data collection scheduled for 2020. We are sad to make this decision, but think that it is the safest option for our participants, researchers, and for the quality of our data.

In the meantime, stay safe, stay home.

Kia kaha.

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]]> Suburb-level changes for active transport to meet the SDGs: Causal theory and a New Zealand case study https://www.futurestreets.org.nz/suburb-level-changes-for-active-transport-to-meet-the-sdgs-causal-theory-and-a-new-zealand-case-study/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:17:59 +0000 http://www.futurestreets.org.nz/?p=3634 The post Suburb-level changes for active transport to meet the SDGs: Causal theory and a New Zealand case study appeared first on Te Ara Mua - Future Streets.

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In 2015, governments around the world (including Aotearoa New Zealand) signed up to a set of global goals combining human and environmental wellbeing: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Interventions like Te Ara Mua Future Streets have the potential to contribute to many of the SDGs, because they make healthy and environmentally-friendly travel like walking and cycling safer and more convenient, with a focus on fair access to people’s daily needs. In this paper we reviewed the existing research linking suburban walking and cycling with the SDGs and proposed a diagram for how the links work. We also then talk more about how we carried out the Te Ara Mua Future Streets project so that other researchers and transport practitioners around the world can use what we’ve learnt. Access
MacMillan, A., Smith, M., Witten, K., Woodward, A., Hosking, J., Wild, K., & Field, A. (2020). Suburb-level changes for active transport to meet the SDGs: Causal theory and a New Zealand case study. Science of the Total Environment, p.136678

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What We Are Learning » Have these changes improved wellbeing?

Diabetes risk

A pre-post analysis of diabetes risk in the intervention area will be conducted. Baseline data have been collected and follow-up data will be collected as part of an HRC grant in 2020.

Findings

Data will be collected in 2020.

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What We Are Learning » Have these changes improved wellbeing?

Physical activity

A pre-post analysis of physical activity rates in the control and intervention area will be conducted. Baseline data have been collected and follow-up data will be collected as part of an HRC grant in 2020.

Findings

Follow-up data will be collected in 2020.

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What We Are Learning » Have these changes improved wellbeing?

Air pollution

A pre-post analysis of air pollution levels in the intervention area and control area will be conducted. Baseline data have been collected and follow-up data will be collected as part of an HRC grant in 2020.

Findings

Follow-up data will be collected in 2020.

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Children from three Māngere Schools – Ngā Iwi, Jean Batten and Māngere College – took part in focus group discussions before Te Ara Mua Future Streets changes were made to local streets and again afterwards. On both occasions they talked about how they moved around their local neighbourhood, common destinations and their perceptions of the neighbourhood. These children liked living in Māngere but before the intervention were fearful of traffic, crossing the road and the threatening behaviour of some young people, particular in parks and alleyways. After the intervention they were no longer concerned by traffic or crossing roads but were still fearful of antisocial behaviour occurring in the neighbourhood. Access
Witten, K., & Field, A. (2020). Engaging children in neighbourhood planning for active travel infrastructure. In E.O. Waygood, M. Friman & L. Olsson (Eds.), Transportation and Children’s Well-being (pp. 199-216). Elsevier

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Efforts to improve health equity should be informed by the best available evidence. However, equity-related research is inconsistently indexed, and uses a variety of terms to describe key concepts, making it difficult to reliably identify all relevant studies. We report the development and validation of a search strategy for studies investigating whether the effects of interventions differ by ethnicity or socio-economic status, using the field of transport and health as an example. Access
Hosking, J., Macmillan, A., Jones, R., Ameratunga, S., Woodward, A. (2019)  Searching for health equity: Validation of a search filter for ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in transport. Systematic Reviews 8:94. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1009-5

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What We Are Learning » Lessons for the future

Lessons for the future

Te Ara Mua – Future Streets has shown how an integrated approach to community transport infrastructure can be taken to achieve road safety, walking and cycling, and community improvements all within one project.

Talking with communities to understand what is needed, and then using this to design improvements is another lesson for other projects. More is needed to work with communities through the entire process, to understand the parts of the designs that people might have problems with.

For some things that are new to communities, such as cycling, more is needed to overcome barriers and to make cycling an easy option for people.

In many communities, changes to streets, parks and routes need to be combined with other efforts to manage dogs and help people, especially women and girls, fell safer in their neighbourhoods.

Te Ara Mua – Future Streets is a great start to show how things can be done differently. There is much more to be done in Māngere and South Auckland, to make streets safer and easier for walking and cycling.

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The aim of this study was to understand how people from the Māngere community experienced the Future Streets changes, particularly for walking and cycling. Eight community stakeholders were interviewed. They were selected based on their ability to represent a range of community perspectives. In addition, written transcripts from three focus group discussions with 21 Māngere residents were used. The analysis identified five major themes: road safety; personal safety; social and cultural norms; practicality; and community involvement. See summary
Thorne, R. (2019) Walking and cycling in Māngere: Community experiences of Te Ara Mua – Future Streets. Masters Thesis. The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

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