Guest Post: Rail Safety Week – A HSEQ Perspective
This is a guest post from Harriet. Recently we have had Rail Safety Week, the aim was to increase awareness of level crossings and their danger. Unfortunately we have had many deaths and injuries, with countless more near misses over the last few years.…
70 Comments Guest post: When Nimbyism rules angels become homeless
This is a cross-post of an article written by Transportblog reader and passionate Cantabrian Brendon Harre. Brendon takes a look at New Zealand’s attitudes around housing development:
The inspiration for the title of this paper comes from an economist –Eric Crampton writing about Auckland’s housing crisis.…
Guest Post: Rethinking our Town Centres for People (Thinking Orbital not Radial) Part 1
This is a guest post submitted by reader Harriet.
We talk so much about how to make the CBD more pedestrian friendly by removing general traffic, and concentrating on public transport and active modes instead, but do we do this enough for our town centres?…
Guest Post: Is Christchurch a provincial market town, or a diversified commercial city?
This is a guest post by Christchurch resident and urbanist Brendon Harre. An earlier iteration of this post originally appeared at Making Christchurch
Is Christchurch a provincial market town, or a diversified commercial city? Sheep sale, Addington, Christchurch, [ca 1920s]
Recently on the transportblog website Stu Donovan someone who I respect for his expert analysis and articles, wrote the following, as a comment about Auckland’s population growth.…
Where does top down meet bottom up?
This is a guest post from Brendon Harre
In a previous series on the rebuild of Christchurch CBD I have suggested a fundamental issue for urban design is how to increase amenity value without increasing property prices? How to return the amenity value created by the presence and enterprise of the community back to that community?…
Notes from Abroad: Hamburg, Bristol, Cardiff, & Zürich
This is a guest post by Warren Sanderson; regular reader, occasional poster, and seasoned traveller.
Hamburg, Bristol, Cardiff & Zurich In August last year I wrote a guest post for Transport Blog commenting on my wife and my experiences utilising public transport in the cities of Gothenburg, Hanover and Hamburg.…
Submit on the East West Connections
Post from Ryan Mearns of Generation Zero
In June NZTA and Auckland Transport finally came out with a new proposed route for the East-West Connections, which is a new road route long pushed by business groups that would link SH1 and SH20 either north or south of the Manukau Harbour. …
Island Bay Cycleway: Safety for All Road Users
This is a guest post by Wellington architect Guy Marriage.
Wellington City Council has, at last, voted to go ahead with its first separated cycle-way and to adopt the Wellington Cycling Framework. The former is a section of cycle-way starting in Island Bay (a southern suburb next to Cook Strait, once a predominantly Italian fishing village).…
Nederland (Re) Cycle and (E) Cycle
This is a guest post by Andre de Graaf, Architectural Director of Isthmus, who is travelling the Netherlands. The post originally appeared on the Isthmus Blog.
We all know the Dutch do the bike priority thing really well, but they are not resting on their laurels as they continue to reprocess existing infrastructure for more equitable multi-mode travel.…
‘here began all my dreams’
*This is a guest post by bike romantic Maria Majsa, and cross posted from our sister site CAA with thanks*
On Valentine’s Day this year I didn’t get roses, I got a bike. A handsome, shiny black upright. You might think that a bike isn’t a particularly romantic gift, but I disagree.…
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