Healthy Streets Alliance calls for submissions on safer speeds proposal
This is a guest post from Healthy Streets Alliance spokesperson Ellie Craft
This week we launched the Healthy Streets Alliance. The alliance is made up of citizens’ advocacy groups and non-profit charities, including NZ School Speeds, Brake the road safety charity, Doctors for Active Sustainable Transport, Visual Impairment Charitable Trust Aotearoa (NZ), Greater Auckland, Generation Zero, Urban Auckland, Incorporated Society for Alternative Housing Developments, Bike Auckland, Cycling Action Network, Grey Lynn 2030, Living Streets Aotearoa, Women in Urbanism Aotearoa, Urban Design Forum, Sky Path, the Auckland City Centre Residents Group, and Transition Towns Point Chevalier.…
3 Comments Mr. Bridges, open this gate. Mr. Bridges, tear down this wall!
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood by the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and called on Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union, to take down the wall cutting off Berlin’s east and west halves.
In 2017, I’m calling on the Minister of Transport, Simon Bridges, to take action.…
Mid-week reading: Cycle connectivity, metro connectivity, walkability
This is mid-week reading – a feature I’m writing while trying to get on top of work and back on a regular blogging schedule.
This week’s theme is connectivity. Transport networks are powerful tools for connecting people – or separating them.…
Guest Post: Transport is a public health issue
This is a guest post from Donna Wynd
As a social scientist, I often look at transport ‘solutions’ and find my eyes rolling to the back of my head. Transport is a sector dominated by men who are, predominantly, trained to see transport as an engineering or technology problem.…
Motorways and health
An article in the herald earlier this week highlighted some of the health issues we see have with motorways.
People who live beside Auckland’s Southern Motorway are subjected to air pollution at nearly double the level of those 130m further away, research shows.…
Driving and sprawl are killing you
An article in the New York Times a few months ago summarised quite nicely recent research into connections between transport modes and health outcomes:
Millions of Americans like her pay dearly for their dependence on automobiles, losing hours a day that would be better spent exercising, socializing with family and friends, preparing home-cooked meals or simply getting enough sleep.…
Public transport’s health benefits
Todd Littman of the Victorian Transport Policy Institute has released a fascinating study into the health benefits of public transport. Here’s a brief summary of the study and its findings:
This report investigates ways that public transportation affects human health, and ways to incorporate these impacts into transport policy and planning decisions.…
Transport, urban form and health
The Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) has released a very interesting study into the linkages between urban environments and wellbeing, entitled Healthy Places, Healthy Lives: urban environments and wellbeing. During my university studies I did quite a lot of research into what we call “Health Geography” – looking at how different environments affect different health outcomes.…
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