Sunday reading 22 March 2015
Every week we read more than we can write about on the blog. To avoid letting good commentary and research fall by the wayside, we’re going to publish weekly excerpts from what we’ve been reading.
Joel Leider, “House price-to-rent ratios in major US markets: a data visualization case study“:
My wife and I are buying (and selling) a house, and the metric I always return to is price-to-rent ratio.…
12 Comments Guest Post: Orange Smoothy
This is a part one of a two part guest post by highly visible e-cyclist and regular reader Greg Nikoloff
This post is about my experiences with my Pedego brand (http://pedego.co.nz) electric bike (e-bike), which I purchased from Bute Bikes (who also trade as Electricbikes.co.nz)…
Saturday picture: The fate of bicyclists
When bicycle were first invented and popularised in the late 1800s, they were met with a degree of moral panic. Would bicycles lead women into immorality? Would upstanding citizens be overrun by mobs of cycling hoons?
David Herlihy’s book Bicycle: The History presents one particularly hilarious example of these reactions.…
More on Auckland Transport’s electric car sharing scheme
As Matt wrote last week, Auckland Transport are keen to set up an electric car sharing scheme.
Auckland Transport intends to seek bids from national and international operators to establish a large-scale PEV based car-sharing scheme in Auckland. The successful scheme will be privately owned and operated.…
Franklin Rd update
Last year Auckland Transport started consultation on improvements to the iconic Franklin Rd that is in some serious need of improvement – in part due to the damage caused by the roots of the trees that give it its character. Back in October AT presented two different options for the street and one aspect that was common among them was to push the kerb out past the trees to better protect their roots however that caused its own issues.…
NZPI Young Planners Congress 2015 – ‘Urban Legends’
This is a Guest Post by Auckland Young Planners
The NZPI Young Planners Group convenes annually for the Young Planners Congress, a single day event coinciding with the larger NZPI Conference. This year’s Congress will be held at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre on 14 April, and will be preceded by drinks the night before at Little Easy in Ponsonby.…
A Boy in the City
*** Here at TransportBlog we’re big advocates for making Auckland more “family friendly”. In general, this means designing our city to be safe and pleasant for the most vulnerable people: Children. While many parts of Auckland are a long way from idal, the City Centre has – in my opinion – come a long way over the last 10-15 years, I’m struck by the number of families and children I now see wandering around enjoying all that the city has to offer.…
Metamorphosis: The Return of the City
The Auckland City Centre is entering a phase of profound change. The rest of this decade it’ll be undergoing a more extensive and disruptive renovation than your average Ponsonby villa. The designers and financiers are at work and the men and machines are are about to start.…
A Day on the London Undergound
A neat visualisation of actual passenger journeys on the London underground
A visualisation of 562,145 journeys on the London Underground network, from a 5% sample of Oyster-card journeys during a week in 2009 He explains more behind the visualization here.
Wouldn’t it be great if Auckland Transport released HOP data in a similar way so something similar could be done here.…
Carlton Gore improvements confirmed
Nearly a year ago Auckland Transport announced plans to put cycle lanes on Carlton Gore Rd – something that created a typical backlash from locals in the area who felt they deserved a free piece of public space to store their personal possessions.…
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