10 March Media Release
Those Streets Were Made For Walk2Work Day - this Wednesday 11 March

Every day can be a walk to work day, but tomorrow morning is set to be a special national celebration of using your own internal combustion to get to work.

The day’s organiser since 2009, Living Streets Aotearoa, are welcoming the support of members of New Zealand’s Urban Design Forum (UDF) who have rallied to the cause of walking by assisting to arrange a small number of open-invitation guided walks in Wellington and the Hutt Valley.

UDF representative Brett Gawn describes the act of walking to work as an under-appreciated opportunity for "connecting people to their local place, and to the other people in that place”.

“Taking to the street to walk to work is all about sensing everything around us, about experiencing our urban environs anew, and gaining a street-view perspective of our cities and towns that simply can’t be obtained any other way”.

The UDF’s contribution to Walk2Work Day this year - which happily coincides with Parks Week - has been to line up ‘host walkers’ with knowledge to share with other walkers about things that often go unseen in the rush of commuting to work - features such as local engineering heritage, the flora and fauna of local green spaces, aspects of social history and the stories behind well-known landmarks.

See more details of what’s happening for Walk2Work Day around New Zealand tomorrow on the Living Streets Aotearoa website [http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/node/4884 ]

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