San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions
Another great video from Streetfilms: Tom Radulovich, the executive director of the local non-profit Livable City, describes the recent livable streets achievements in San Francisco as “tactical urbanism” — using low-cost materials like paint and bollards to reclaim street space.
That willingness to experiment was a big reason that the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave its 2012 Sustainable Transport Award to San Francisco (an honor shared with MedellÃn, Colombia).…
2 Comments Rethinking the automobile – video
This is an excellent, if rather lengthy, video by Streetfilms about the impact of automobiles on our cities: A description:
For more than 100 years New York City government policy has prioritized the needs of the automobile over the needs of any other mode of transport.…
And the transport prize goes to …
This is the first of what I hope will be a series of short posts on good/bad transport behaviour. Â The idea is that by “naming” people/companies that deliver good transport outcomes, and “shaming” those that perform poorly, we can create a semblance of public pressure for businesses to pull up their transport socks.…
Multi-What?
Along with ‘Transformational’ the other phrase suffering from misuse in discussions around Auckland’s transport plans at the moment is ‘Multi-Modal’. This seems to have come from the logistics sector where it refers to the sending of goods over a variety of technologies and/or involving handling by various companies to get to their destination.…
AT still blaming pedestrians for getting run over
There’s something quite strange about Auckland Transport’s latest safety campaign for pedestrians– which focuses on university students. Despite the fact that it seems pretty unlikely pedestrians deliberately try to die or be seriously injured when crossing roads, they are seen as the ones who need most ‘educating’ when it comes to road safety:
Auckland Transport’s new pedestrian campaign targets tertiary students returning to class urging them to take more care around pedestrian intersections.…
The New Intensity
If ever you make the mistake of reading the comment stream on the average Herald article about Auckland you will find this kind of thought from people like Rodney of Howick who states:
For some reason [Mayor] Len Brown seems convinced that there will be more businesses started in the CBD and more people wanting to live there.…
Event Reminder – Playing in the Streets
This is a reminder for what looks to be an excellent event happening this Sunday. It will be really interesting to see Queen St converted for pedestrian use and something I hope we continue to see much more of.
For the first time ever, from Customs Street to Wyndham Street, we’re kicking out the cars and turning Queen Street into one big sports park!…
Intensification and Heritage
A plainly daft piece on the proposed Auckland Plan by Bill Ralston recently appeared in the NZ Listener. In it he claims, completely without any reason, that the plan sets out to demolish where he lives, as well as every other desirable part of Auckland in the name of instensification.…
Shared spaces: traffic volumes matter
As regular readers will know, I’m a huge fan of the shared spaces we’ve seen rolled out around Auckland’s city centre (and in New Lynn) over the past year or so. It’s fantastic to see pedestrian freely milling around streets that were once the sole property of vehicles, but also to see a regular “eyes on the street” value that traffic can provide, if you compare shared streets to pedestrian malls.…
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