Sunday reading 1 November 2015
The big news this week was the decision of the Vancouver City Council to remove their clunky viaduct. Like the Dominion Road Flyover the viaducts are a legacy fragment of a wider scale scheme that was never realised. To this day the viaducts remain an asterisk for one of the only North American cities to resist the widescale incursion of motorways into the city centre.…
11 Comments Sunday reading 18 October 2015
John Greenfield. “Ghost Parcels Show How Urban Highways Squandered Valuable Land“, StreetsBlog Chicago. Captivating images and interesting discussion about the ghost parcels that remain after the motorways wiped away neighbourhoods.
Alissa Walker. “How a Former Video Game Designer Created the Best Intersection For Bikes“, GIZMODO.…
Sunday reading 4 October 2015
Mikael Colville-Andersen, “Paris’ Day Sans Cars Shows Us What Our Cities Can Be“, WIRED.
Everyone wandering around the streets of Paris yesterday enjoyed it. There were people thinking, “Amazing! If only this was every day!” and others thinking, “Amazing! But as long as it’s just one day”.…
Sunday Best Ride- 4 October 2015
Here is an event that may be of interest to many readers:
Join fellow cyclists on a marshalled ride to celebrate the Golden Age of cycling – and the return of the Golden Age, as bike culture blossoms once more across Auckland.…
Sunday reading 20 September 2015
Eric Jaffe, “Milan Abruptly Suspended Congestion Pricing and Traffic Immediately Soared“, CityLab. A very popular congestion pricing scheme in Milan was suspended for an 8-week period during a court challenge. Researchers evaluated the impacts on driver behaviour during the suspension. Somewhat surprisingly drivers immediately took back to the roads the first day of the suspension.…
Park(ing) Day 2015
It has been a busy morning across the city centre with the opening of the Beach Road cycle lane extension and the annual celebration of Park(ing) Day. This year most of the park(ing) day activity has been focused on High Street/Lorne Street.…
Sunday reading 6 September 2015
Sam Schwartz, “Why a car-centric transportation plan is folly for L.A.” The Los Angeles Times.
After more than 40 years as a transportation engineer, I’m very aware that most of the traditional measures of transportation efficiency focus on mobility, often expressed as “delay per capita” or “dollars wasted while waiting in traffic.”…
Advisory bike lanes – Kiwi Esplanade
A few weeks ago there was an unfortunate trial of a bike facility design known as “advisory” bike lanes. Advisory lanes, sometimes called “suggested” bike lanes are common in the Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and increasingly North America. There are some good examples from NL in this guest post by Andre de Graaf .…
Sunday reading 23 August 2015
A neat street design resource that collects the before-and-afters (good ones anyway) of streets from StreetView.
Here is a highly recommended interview with Mark Todd of Ockham Residential properties where he discusses his business model of providing high quality, high density residential projects across Auckland.…
Sunday reading 9 August 2015
John Greenfield, “Burke: Don’t Bend Over Backwards to Facilitate Driving at the Lincoln Hub“, Streetsblog Chicago.
Sandy Smith, “Tracing the urban transport revolution“, Next City.
Over the last 30 to 40 years, a tectonic shift has occurred in the way Americans think about urban transportation networks, especially the streets and roads that are their backbone.…
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