A great video from Streetfilms on transit-oriented developments (TODs) – with a particular focus on the effect New Jersey’s light-rail system has had on encouraging development around it:
I think a fundamental principle of Auckland’s upcoming spatial plan should be to find out ways to encourage and incentivise – through appropriate transport improvements, zoning changes and clever financial tools, a greater focus on TODs.
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Brilliant, admin, this is what we need. But then I think of your previous post showing NZTA, no doubt with the encouragement of the minister, rushing to spend every dime on pointlessly and endlessly and unthinkingly expanding the motorway network…..
Slightly off topic… but
I watched a fascinating documentary on TVNZ7 last night about traffic congestion. The most interesting part was a study in Holland where they have purposefully removed traffic markings, traffic lights, signs and other distinctions between road and pavement. Rather than chaos, this has made motorists come off auto pilot and actually take notice of their surroundings, whether that be other cars, pedestrians or cyclists. An intersection that had numerous crashes and killed at least one person per year now has no deaths or accidents. And what’s more the studies actually showed traffic moved more freely through the intersection. Shared space, way of the future!
Was that stuff that Hans Monderman was involved in? I remember hearing about him on the radio a couple of years ago. The counter-intuitiveness of it all is fantastic.
That is the theory behind the shared spaces that are going in around the CBD