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‘I want to ride my bike’: overcoming barriers to cycling to intermediate schools

Hamish Mackie, August 2009, TERNZ Limited for NZTA, Document No. RR380
Transport modes such as walking and cycling, including cycling to school, could play a key role in combating obesity, climate change and traffic congestion as well as restoring ‘social capital’ within communities. The objective of this research was to identify the specific barriers to school students cycling to school for six intermediate schools and recommend interventions that would be effective, acceptable to parents and schools, and favourable to school students for each of the schools. View PDF