Celebrating recent Auckland Cycling and Walking projects
This is a sort of ‘Photo of the Day’ post to follow Matt’s one this morning: The day in question being last Friday 30th of Jan. Thankfully I was able to get back to the city from work in the South Island just in time to ride to the Ministerial Cycleways Announcement on the abandoned CMJ off-ramp.…
56 Comments Photo of the day: Dots
Some more images from Isabella Cawthorn of some temporary place making on Bond St in Wellington. A bit of paint, some large pots, some fake grass and an old shipping container can really transform an old piece of asphalt.…
Photo of the Day – Shared Space instructions
From reader Isabella Cawthorn in Wellington, some instructions on using shared spaces.…
Photo of the day: Bledisloe Lane
This was from just before Christmas showing the newly upgraded Bledisloe Lane. The oppressively low canopy was removed, paving replaced and Bledisloe building facade repaired. The space has a much better feeling to it now and so much more pleasant to walk through.…
Photo of the Day: Summer Cruising
Posts have been a little slow the last few days as I’m away – although I am slowly working on some. In the mean time here are a few photo’s.…
Citi Bike Rides visualisation
Citi Bike in New York has been spectacularly successful and incredibly popular since it launched in May last year. Just a few months later tens of thousands of trips per day were already being taken on the bikes. Below is a fascinating visualisation covering trips users made over two days.…
How we treat pedestrians
This image has been doing the rounds on Twitter a lot recently as it so brilliantly shows how we treat pedestrians in so many of our streets. It comes from Daniel Sauter from Urban Mobility Research who was recently in the country to speak at the 2Walkandcycle conference as well as doing an IPENZ talk in Auckland.…
Photo of the day: Balanced transport in the Netherlands
Flikr user Eric Kieboom uploaded a great aerial photograph of Groningen Central Station that shows what a balanced transport system looks like: The station manages to join up two efficient, high-capacity urban transport systems – cycling and rail – and even provides some space for parking.…
Photo of the Day: Lone Commuter
Lone Commuter Passes Lines of Private Property Stored on Public Land…
Photo of the Day: Hobson Bay
I recently had the privilege of spending a day on a cliff top above Hobson Bay. As a student I lived for a year over the Parnell end of the bay so this was both a reminder of that for me and the experience of a different angle onto the view.…
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