Jessica Rose is a New Zealand Green Party member serving on her local board in the electorate of Albert-Eden. She is a self-professed woman of many hats – a transport planner at Wairaka Land Company, specialising in sustainable multi-modal transit, and a bike advocate with Bike Auckland. Evelyn caught up with Jessica to talk about her passion for making Auckland a better place for everyone, and her membership in the all-female cycling group Lady Gang. Continue →
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Farzad Zamani: Why are we still calling cyclists hooligans?
A brief note on media coverage of an incident involving a group of young people riding their bicycles.
On December 20, 2016, a New Zealand media outlet reported on a ‘youth bike gang’ causing terror and chaos in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. My friend, local journalist Lillian Hanly, perfectly wrapped up the event and the reactions on social media: Continue →
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