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The following posts are filed under: Society & Community.
“You gotta hand it to ’em” – but not your vote
Talk Wellington admires skill in any job, including local body politicians. Which is why it’s good to use scorecards but also use less game-able, more revealing insights into those who would run our cities
Read MoreTalking Transport: North, West and Centre
Transport makes or breaks cities. For the last 40 years Wellington’s has been largely breaking us (or at best braking us). Local councillors’ transport policies and nous really matter. Talking Transport puts them on the spot so you can hear what they’ve got!
Read MoreLet’s get out and play!
Kids being able to play outdoors is such an allround good thing that it should be protected as a right, and fought for with at least as much passion as, say, street carparking. The UK has just boosted street play – hooray!
Read MoreRoad To Zero: submission guide LAST CHANCE TODAY WEDNESDAY!
Quick! The best ten minutes you’ll spend today – less death in our times!
Read MoreThe Gimp is back, and it wants you to vote
The Traffic Jam reckons 2019’s local body elections are a block buster (and the Friendly Orange Elections Gimp would agree). But what’s worse than not voting is an ill-informed vote. Fear not – the Jam’s got your back, writes Bryan Crump
Read MoreVision Zero: what’s that?
Government’s announced the new road safety strategy and it’s open for consultation. What is this thing and should we welcome it?
Read MoreRethinking Safety
As NZ grapples with our attitudes to our objectively terrible road death rate (not to mention e-scooters, kids’ cycling, high-vis, speed limits etc), we must ask: what’s real, and what’s in our heads – what myths have we come to believe?
Read MoreDesign thinking for libraries
Wellingtonian Ralph Johns imagines Wellington City’s new library
Read MoreThings to do (quick!), read, talk about: a fresh tasting platter
SO much good stuff popping up! Here’s a random summary of things you might like
Read MoreSafer space for cycling (scooting): what’s going onwith (some of) us?
A recent piece on the sudden scuttling of a flagship London project for safer cycling, and local e-scooter hoo-ha, sparked a few thoughts about local opposition to infrastructure for safer cycling – and e-scooting.
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