Mackenzie Beveridge, Kate Jones, Zoe Crofskey, Zoe Templeton-Bernal with Project Team members Nic Brydon and Faye Rile

The voice of young people is being heard in our Streets for People project as we focus on improving the

safety of all users of Aranui Road in Māpua.

We began last September with a workshop with year seven and eight students from Māpua School to

come up with a list of benefits and barriers to walking and cycling to school.

From that event, six students were chosen to become Active Travel Champions, who worked with our

Schools Travel Planning Advisor Nic Brydon.

Together they’ve investigated ways of slowing traffic, found safer routes to and from school, and

engaged with their wider school community through a series of surveys.

The group of youngsters also helped organise an art competition to create works that can be used along

the new pilot road layout.

The criteria were to reflect Māpua's uniqueness in a way that can easily be transferred onto a stencil; we

were looking for something bold and simple.

From 30 entries, five finalists were selected, with two designs chosen to potentially be used in the

project.

The two winners were Zoe Crofskey with the heron/koru image, and Zoe Templeton-Bernal whose

design represents a wave and koru.