Photo of the day – Darby St
Another before and after from Sydney, this time showing Darby St Photo is credited to oh.yes.melbourne (aka Sydney)…
14 Comments Photo of the day – Fort St East
The shared space on the western end of Fort St has been particularly successful in both revitalising the public realm and encouraging adjacent businesses to invest in the area which has helped to bring it alive. We have been keeping track of the works to create a shared space on the eastern end of Fort St and it seems there are already some really positive results coming from the work.…
On Self-Driving Cars
Over on dezeen there is a really interesting post by Dan Hill called “Self-driving cars are the answer- what is the question?”
Basically you should all read the whole thing there rather than me sum it up but here’s taste:
Here we see such companies are not actually interested in genuine change, for all their bluster about “radical disruption”.…
Stopping cars from damaging shared streets
A story in the NZ Herald yesterday has scratched the surface on of the key problems that do exist with shared spaces.
Everyone knows the Maori language has taken a battering, but in downtown Auckland, a seat in the form of the word “reo” has been put near the middle of the road outside the central library and is now scraped and bent out of shape because of vehicles banging into it.…
Transforming New York’s Streets – lessons for Auckland?
Here’s a great video of New York City transport commission Janette Sadik-Khan, talking about the transformation of many streets within New York City over the past few years to be much friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists: Perhaps the best suggestion she highlights are the benefits from changing streets quickly, cheaply and in a way that can be reversible if it doesn’t work.…
Photo of the day – Elliott St
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Fort St East Shared Space
I last updated progress on the Shared Space upgrade on the eastern section of Fort St in April when there was still a lot of work to do but when I visited yesterday, it is looking almost complete. What amazed me was just how much wider this section of street feels compared to the Queen St end.…
Park(ing) Day, 20 September 2013
This Friday people around the world will be participating in Park(ing) Day a celebration of streets as public spaces. PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places.…
Is it time for us to try Sunday Streets?
My focus this morning has been on San Francisco and watching Team New Zealand win the first two races in the America’s Cup (bloody hell that first race was exciting). It has also got me thinking of an initiative that happens in San Francisco that I would love to see implemented here in Auckland – Sunday Streets.…
IPENZ talk on Shared Spaces
Is it just me or do there seem to be a lot of events at the moment, not that I’m complaining. IPENZ is holding another event tomorrow night, this time looking at shared spaces. We know already that shared spaces have been quite a success so hopefully we will learn a bit more tomorrow.…
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