Very easy question to kick things off. Tell me your name and where you're from.

Kjoda, I'm Pippa Coombe from Auckland, Atero, New Zealand. I've been on Auckland Council

for 12 years and so this is a good break to have to see

what's happening around the world with cycling and mobility. What are the

political challenges in New Zealand?

So I've been catching up with other politicians,

hearing their stories too,

and the same struggle to really try and reclaim the street for people and to give that space.

And that's what we're hearing a lot.

I mean, even here in Ghent, there's been a big fight over car parks and space for bikes. We've got kind of facets of that happening back home as well.

A lot of anger towards low traffic neighborhoods, removing car parks, slower speeds.

How do you diffuse some of that anger?

Well, I think this is just one of the really big questions,

and I haven't got the perfect answer for it at all and again thinking about the comments from the deputy mayor of Ghent

He was saying you can't take examples from overseas and take them to your own home and say that's what we should do.

People have got to experience it on the ground.

And I'm seeing that in Wellington.

I was at a conference there and they have actually managed to do a pilot bike network and it's been

really successful and that has allowed people to experience and feel what

it's like to live in a cycleable city and so now they can move to

and unfortunately we miss that step in Auckland and so I think that's one of the

sort of takeaways from the conference is about we really just

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