Bing Lucas championed the development of walkways, mainly near urban centres, through his role in the Lands and Survey Department and as chairman of the Walkways Commission. Here he’s pictured (at right) with Bob Lithgow (left), secretary general of the New Zealand Automobile Association (AA), and Chris O’Brien, compiler of a 1982 guidebook to New Zealand walkways produced as a collaboration between the AA and the Commission. In the book's foreword, Lucas wrote that walkways ‘open the window of a fascinating world of New Zealand culture, history and nature, of farming and forestry’, and ‘offer new perspectives of familiar places, discoveries of new places and experiences of the physical, recreational and social benefits of walking.’
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