Staying awake on safety

The increasing levels of death and destruction on our roads has been a major issue for us this year. One of our complaints with previous government’s singular focus on a handful of large, expensive and gold plated projects was that it sucked funding away from a lot of valuable, low cost safety improvements.…
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Kaikoura reconnected

Last Friday the NZTA finally reopened the section of State Highway north of Kaikoura. It was immediately clear after the earthquakes that the repair was going to be a huge job and it’s taken one year, one month and one day just to get to this point.…
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Watch: Rotterdam, A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile

Here’s a great new video documenting the progress that Rotterdam is making to become a nicer, more productive place. The city is rapidly expanding and improving it’s cycle network. Currently bicycle mode share is *only* 20%. They are also extending their light rail network and have a magnificent new central rail station with parking for 5,000 bikes.…
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Dear Auckland, we need your help

This is a guest post from some of our friends in Wellington Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) will profoundly shape Wellington, and the window is almost closed to give your steer on the approach they’re taking. We need you, smart GA readers, to take two minutes and give some good progressive-transport feedback – by Friday 15 December at 5pm.…
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Auckland’s Urban Freshwater – our historic relationship

This is a guest post from Ed Clayton This is the first post of a three-part series exploring the relationships between freshwater and transport in Auckland. The aim of the combined series is to demonstrate how Auckland could seize the opportunity to build resilient water infrastructure at the same time as addressing transport issues, and to provoke discussion.…
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Bikexplosion

It seems so long ago now, and if you’d only turned up in the city in the last month you wouldn’t believe it, but Auckland has been having one of its wettest years ever. By September we’d already received more rain than we normally get in a year.…
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Auckland Transport spineless on Onewa Road

Auckland is growing rapidly and that’s placing huge pressure on our transport networks. It’s also now widely agreed that there simply isn’t the space to cheaply or easily widen roads. That means that if we want to move more people around this city, we need to make more efficient use of those transport networks, especially our roads.…
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