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The following posts are filed under: Society & Community.
“Of course it’s worth it, they’ve said we’ll save 25 minutes at peak”
Travel times are at the heart of transport business cases. Business cases are how bureaucrats decide what’s worth spending your money on and what’s not (before politics), and we invest billions of public dollars every year on transport according to business cases. You’d hope they’ve got fundamentally sensible calculations of benefit to the nation… but do they?
Harriet Gale of Greater Auckland points out some big questions regarding how we do our sums.
Having your say
2018 is definitely the Wellington region’s Year of Transport which means it’s also the Year Of People Talking About Transport. Talk Wellington takes a couple of recent developments and wonders how well our models are working.
Read MoreGet your local on: last chance, Wellington!
All our towns are being shaped his year by a boring sounding but extremely important document: their Long Term Plan. It’s really important to have your say on the last one still open – it’s even worth missing a few minutes of MAFS.
Read MoreCities through different eyes
If you could go around as a different gender for a while – like Robin Williams’ character in Mrs Doubtfire – you’d have a different experience of your city. Because they’re mainly designed and run by men, cities tend not to work so well for those who aren’t. But that’s not how it’s going to be in…
Read MoreWeekend reading 3.3.18
In this weekend’s food for thought: more news about blimmin’ Scandinavians doing it right.
Read MoreWhose is that land? That’s Māori land
Māori land is a fascinating feature of New Zealand, and now you can see where it all is. Talk Wellington loves anything that sheds light on important and confusing areas… and we really love maps!
Read MoreFighting the “greater good”: protest, civics and civility
People around Levin stand to have their homes bought by force because they’re in the way of a new expressway. Talk Wellington ponders the local reactions when a local landscape is changed in the greater good – and features a post from a vastly different conflict environment
Read MoreLong Weekend Reading 3.2.18
A special Long Weekend edition of our Weekend Reading for you – essential food for thought
Read MoreWeekend reading 27.1.18
Welcome back to weekend reading! Today’s food for thought: as Waitangi Day approaches, what it means to be there. And as we enjoy the beach and envy coastal homeowners, a worrying discovery about how ministers have been dealing with sea level rise…
Read MoreLet’s Coexist
Guest author Kara Puketapu-Dentice looks at New Zealand’s resource management and our struggles to look after this place, and prescribes a dose of disruption: through a simple, elegant reframing of our relationship with nature. This piece is based on a lecture given to a class from Victoria University’s Masters of Resource Management Programme on 21…
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