"The road not taken" – Mobility Health: New Directions in Teen Mobility Management
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AMHC Teen Panel
This international multidisciplinary event showcased current research and practice in teen mobility, active transport, the effects of the built environment and climate change, and youth engagement. Links to recorded video presentations and graphics can be found on the Symposium page and the AMHC YouTube Channel.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 | warai03p | No Comments
Original article by Michael Forbes, at the Dominion Post
Generation Zero – Young people at work on Transportation Choice!
There were more than a few raised eyebrows on the train from Ngauranga to Wellington today as 40 young people did the morning commute in their underwear.
They were part of a youth environmental group called Generation Zero, which fights for climate change action and inter-generational justice.
Group organiser James Young-Drew, 22, said the stunt was designed to launch their 50:50 campaign, which is protesting the government’s plans to spend $14 billion on highway projects over next decade but not nearly as much on ”smart transport options” such as light rail, buses and cycleways.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 | Editor | No Comments
– By Hamish McNeilly
Otago Daily Times
The following is a news story about the implementation of a new New Zealand Law aimed at controlling “boy racer” burnout behavior. It reminds us of the sub-culture of youth, active in many parts of the world, for whom the automobile is an important outlet for adolescent exuberance and sometimes rage. What is known about these cultures? What drives some youth to partake in these behaviours and not others? What harm is done? What works to refocus the emotions on display?
– Editor
A 1982 engineless Toyota Corolla DX parked in a Milton garage will become the first car to be crushed under boy racer legislation. Self-confessed car lover Karn Clarrie Forrest, of Milton, will have his car confiscated and crushed, after his third conviction for driving a vehicle with a sustained loss of traction.
Despite initially agreeing to an interview with the Otago Daily Times, the 18-year-old remained elusive after appearing before Judge Stephen O’Driscoll in the Balclutha District Court, sitting in Gore, yesterday. Forrest was stopped by police after performing two “doughnuts” in his car on State Highway 1, north of Milton, on September 29.
Forrest was stopped by police after performing two “doughnuts” in his car on State Highway 1, north of Milton, on September 29. A passenger in that vehicle, Rhiane Dunn (18), of Milton, said his flatmate would be devastated to have the car he was doing up crushed.
Forrest, in his expletive-laden Facebook profile, wrote someone had “narked” on him for doing doughnuts, and he was planning to put a turbocharger in the Toyota. “i love me carz an burnouts,” he wrote.
Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | warai03p | No Comments
Aimee Ward (Otago), Arthur Orsini (Urban Thinkers) and Charlotte Flaherty (DCC)
Arthur Orsini, Active Transportation Planner Stantec Consulting Ltd. in partnership with Urbanthinkers
Earlier this month, the Greater Wellington Regional Council held a series of workshops by noted school travel planning expert and youth engagement authority Arthur Orsini, the developer of Urbanthinkers, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Charlotte Flaherty (Safe and Sustainable Travel Co-ordinator for Dunedin City Council … and an AMC Advisory Board Member) and I were lucky enough to be invited along for the proverbial ride.
On 14 July we attended an all-day seminar by Orsini, “Adult Facilitator Workshop in Youth Engagement”, and were inspired.
Arthur is a pioneer in his field, and has been developing innovative and effective youth and community engagement projects since 1991. His work helps local authorities support students and community-leaders become local champions for travel behaviour change. His secondary school program, Off Ramp, received an OECD award for Sustainable Transport: Education and Youth in 2000. Arthur has worked and presented across Canada, and in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He places particular importance on empowering youth to become peer-mentors. He has never owned a car.
During the facilitator workshop, we performed planning/evaluation exercises – hallmarks of the Orsini Model for Child and Youth Engagement – as if we were the adolescents themselves, and found ourselves enthralled. Ultimately, the AMC aims to affect the driving and licensing habits of secondary-school aged adolescents through the promotion of active transport and transportation demand management (TDM). Thus, we have a keen interest in Arthur’s ability to capture attention and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders, especially youth themselves.
Both Arthur and the AMC have similar long-term goals: increased child and adolescent health, TDM that supports lower emissions, a reduction in crash-related injury, and an overall travel environment that supports active transport alternatives. After meeting and working a bit with Arthur, these goals seem within closer reach.
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