Seville’s Bike Lane Network
Seville, in Spain, have built an impressive network of bike lanes remarkably quickly in recent years. Streetfilms made a great video that explains how this was done: Some thing that really stand out are: The speed of progress. The first 80 kilometres of lanes were put in place in a mere 18 months.…
37 Comments AA Lobbying: Part One – Questions for NZTA
while Auckland city centre accounts for 0.6% of the total network, in 2017, it accounted for 4% of the total deaths and injuries (serious and minor). – Auckland Transport
Auckland’s city centre is one of the highest risk areas of Auckland’s appallingly unsafe road network, yet the AA is lobbying to prevent speed limits there dropping to 30 km/hr.…
Growing Auckland without growing traffic
“How can we accommodate Auckland’s substantial future growth without increasing traffic?”
This is the question that should sit at the heart of every major transport and planning decision that’s made in Auckland. I think it’s also going to increasingly become a way of easily describing the goal of Greater Auckland in helping to shape land-use and transport policy-making.…
Flashback Saturday: The strange side effects of parking subsidies
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in May 2016.
Parking policies are frequently bizarre. Parking is, after all, a private good – it is both rivalrous (two cars can’t park in the same space at the same time) and excludable (if you don’t want someone parking in your space, you can keep them out).…
Women in Urbanism Survey on Reducing Speed Limits
This is a guest post from Miriam Moore at Women In Urbanism
Road and street networks are so often analysed and assessed regarding their automobile connectivity, that we forget about their function in supporting the street life that surrounds them. Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland is intensifying.…
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