Fark - For Arts Rising in Kirikiriroa

Back in April, a team of local creatives were tasked to help ACTIVATE unsafe city spaces on behalf of Hamilton City Council and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.

Two-ish months later, the trial ROAD SAFETY scheme - 90% funded by the NZ Govt - is drawing to a close.

These dangerous, vehicle dominated, uninspiring public roads have nearly INSTANTANEOUSLY transformed into unique, accessible spaces designed for pedestrians, wheelchairs (AKA micro-mobility users), e-scooter users and local cyclists to enjoy...
..A LONG OVERDUE civic upgrade to help improve the wellbeing of our city's most frequent "foot-fall" users - and help connect PEOPLE to our INNER CITY spaces 🧡

How lucky are we to be living in Kirikiriroa right now, to be experiencing this small opportunity to enhance road safety AS WELL AS uplifting the urban city + community environment?

Pretty lucky, we reckon.

And there's still more events to come!

Now is the time to reflect on this funded trial, and get your shoes on and do a walk about - SOAK IT IN - and think about feeding back our experiences to the council.....To ensure they can get more funding from Waka Kotahi - for more transport and community focused projects like this, for the future rangatahi of Kirikiriroa.

Let's give the team + friends a huge round of applause for all their amazing mahi
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