San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions
Another great video from Streetfilms: Tom Radulovich, the executive director of the local non-profit Livable City, describes the recent livable streets achievements in San Francisco as “tactical urbanism” — using low-cost materials like paint and bollards to reclaim street space.
That willingness to experiment was a big reason that the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave its 2012 Sustainable Transport Award to San Francisco (an honor shared with Medellín, Colombia).…
How Effective Transport Planning Has Transformed London
There’s that word again, the thing Auckland needs: Transformation. How altering our transport investment habits is the way to achieve it; lessons from London, should be interesting:…
The PT world from the eyes of Infratil
Some interesting insight into the thinking of NZ Bus is in the latest issue of Infratil’s investor update which came out last week.
NZ Bus was acquired by infratil in 2005 at a price which was a discount to the value of the assets of the business.…