Public transport and Generation Y
When planning for the future we tend to do so by looking at past trends and extrapolating that forward. The somewhat scary thought is that it tends to mean there is an assumption that you will behave exactly the same way your parents did.…
22 Comments NZ Herald: “Urban planners are bad… but motorway planners are good”
Yesterday, the NZ Herald chose to celebrate Auckland’s 175th anniversary with an editorial celebrating the city’s motorways. It’s an extremely odd piece to read in the wake of a string of good editorials discussing shared spaces, new cycleways, and the light rail proposals.…
2015 – The Year Ahead
Happy New Year and welcome to 2015, the year we get hoverboards.
In this post I’m going to look at what we can expect from 2015, some of these have been highlighted in the recent days.
PT
I expect it’s going to be another big year for PT in Auckland as the current growth that we’ve been seeing carries on.…
How Auckland will soon become one of the best cities in the world
Matt’s posts last month on the changes Auckland’s experienced over the last ten years and what might happen over the next ten years got me thinking. Here’s where I think the city could be in ten years:
Auckland will have the best transit system in Australasia.…
Auckland will have the best transit system in Australasia
Warning, this post contains no pictures, no maps, no links, no data and no evidence. It is 100% personal, editorial opinion. If you make it to the end I expect a strongly worded comment in return, whatever your views.
There I said it.…
Will Sci-Fi become reality?
Moving from History in today’s earlier posts, lets now move to the future. A lot of technology first suggested in various forms of sci-fi have eventually come to fruition, particularly when it comes to communications. However one area we don’t seem to have made much progress on has been transport, after all where are our hoverboards, transporters or flying cars.…
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