Piece of Cake #2 = “Too Hard”, Piece of Cake #3
Here’s an update on the last Piece of Cake post (#2). Recall there are several intersections around town where pedestrians are held back by a ‘red man’ when there is no actual vehicle movement conflict. Particularly bad examples can be found at Victoria/High Streets and Symonds/Alfred Streets, and reader mm suggested an additional one at Broadway and Mortimer Place in Newmarket.…
43 Comments Are all “Metropolitan Centres” created equal?
The Auckland Plan’s development strategy highlighted 10 metropolitan centres across Auckland: Albany (emerging), Takapuna, Westgate (emerging), Henderson, New Lynn, Newmarket, Sylvia Park (emerging), Botany (emerging), Manukau and Papakura. They’re shown on the Auckland Plan map below:
The Unitary Plan’s job is to give effect to the Auckland Plan, so each centre has effectively become a “zone” – with rules applied to those centres.…
Shakes, Guns and Automobiles
This is a guest post from reader NCD The above graph is a cumulative series for two causes of death in New Zealand 1921 to 2012. Can you guess what the data series for the blue and green lines are?
One of the challenges we face as a society is responding well to events that happen repeatedly as a series of smaller events that added together result in a major crisis.…
Gerry Brownlee interviewed about transport issues in Auckland
Campbell Live has been running a lot of stories on Auckland issues recently which has been nice to see and has obviously also provided us with a heap of material to talk about. Last night the entire episode was devoted to transport in Auckland.…
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