Vienna PT Time Lapse
A stunning little time lapse video of some of the public transport offerings in Vienna, Austria: Best watched at a reasonably high definition.…
10 Comments Fixing Parking
A useful, if somewhat earnest, little video from Streetfilms about how we can manage parking in better ways to contribute to nicer cities. The Unitary Plan and Auckland Transport’s parking strategy make important steps towards managing parking a lot smarter in the future in Auckland.…
The World’s Most Liveable Cities
Auckland has the goal of becoming the World’s Most Liveable City – a goal that is highly achievable given many of our current advantages (natural setting, low crime rates, mild climate etc.) But what makes a truly liveable city? This is something various agencies like Mercer, the Economist and Monocle try to figure out in their annual surveys.…
Stuart’s 100 #10: Bag Hooks Under Tables
10: Bag Hooks Under Tables What if all restaurants and bars understood the value of bag and coat hooks under bar tables?
Not all great ideas need be large or ambitious. As someone who lives car free in Auckland and walks most places I can vouch personally for the value of somewhere to hang my winter coat and bag that is with me much of the time.…
Postcard from Wuppertal
…from where you say? Wuppertal! It’s a little German city I just dropped in on while passing through from Hamburg to Cologne.
Why would I bother stopping in a small nondescript city on the outskirts of the Rhine-Ruhr? There is only one reason to visit Wuppertal, the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn!…
The City East West Transport Study
Anyone keeping track will know there’s a heap of projects planned to happen in the CBD in the coming years, projects like the CRL, the Victoria St Linear Park on Victoria St and City Centre Bus improvements to support the new bus network to name a few.…
Stuart’s 100 #9: A Gateway Village for Matiatia
9: A Gateway Village for Matiatia What if Matiatia had an island village to match its natural beauty?
Why do people seek to polarise ideas and pitch one thing against another in arguing for the things they want and care about?…
Greens announce full transport policy
On Tuesday the Greens announced a policy to give tertiary students free off peak public transport. While the policy wasn’t terrible I didn’t think it was great either however the same can’t be said for the rest of their transport policy which was announced today.…
Electric vehicles (part 4)
It’s been a while since the last post in this series on electric vehicles (here are parts one, two and three), but this post is number four. Today, I’m looking at the costs of these cars – both their running costs, and their capital costs.…
Stuart’s 100 #8: Re-purposing the aging mid-rise buildings of midtown
8: Re-purposing the aging mid-rise buildings of midtown What if the aging midrise buildings of midtown became model mixed use mash ups?
There are quite a high number of aging mid-rise office blocks in the city centre, particularly in the midtown area, which are in need of redevelopment and are often no longer viable in their earlier roles in providing high value commercial office space.…
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